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force structure

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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The Air Force has been conducting an assessment to determine its force structure and modernization needs for the 2020s.
The book presents a comprehensive assessment of the conditions that have affected materiel and personnel readiness within the naval force structure over the last two decades.
A major force structure reorganization would affect tens of thousands of positions.
To set the stage for the attributes required in a genuinely joint force structure, our discussion begins with a depiction of the individual plans for the Air Force and Navy for addressing A2/ AD in the air domain, beginning with the Air Force's Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan (AS 2030).
OCMI ensures healthy career progression and professional development models by MOS; prepares and submits centralized promotion board guidance and analysis and command slating guidance (COL, LTC, and CSM); and maintains accurate standards of grade that provide supportable grade structure and grading guidance for force structure documents.
"The Board's mandate is to develop a holistic strategic security assessment, security policy framework, revised defence policy, recommend security force structure and budget, and a security sector transformation roadmap to include the unification of security forces," partly reads the statement extended to Sudan Tribune .
Force structure changes are a zero-sum game, where gains in one place must be balanced by losses elsewhere.
The Sustainment Force Structure Book is a data reference and resource that provides a snapshot of sustainment organizations by standard requirements code and includes a brief statement of organizations' missions, functions, capabilities, employment, basis of allocation, doctrinal mobility, and dependencies derived from their base table of organization and equipment.
A number of decisions pertaining to national security strategy, force structure, and declining defense budgets have resulted in a drawdown of the active Marine Corps from 202,000 in 2011 to 174,000 by 2017.
He said anti terrorism force structure would be separate from that of police.
Budget constraints affect manpower, force structure, deployment, forward presence, and planning for the future.
One of the fundamental problems that military planners face is the assessment of changes to force structure. Whether this be the addition of a new weapon, or the substitution of a new weapon system for an old, planners must assess whether the proposed change will be beneficial.

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