Search Results for: Military Readiness

Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles.

In this book, strategy expert Richard K. Betts surveys problems in developing and measuring combat readiness before, during, and after the cold war. He analyzes

The U.S. military has been continuously engaged in foreign conflicts for over two decades. The strains that these deployments, the associated increases in opera

"This paper presents an analytic framework that builds from previous work to yield the systematic and defendable readiness analysis that must underlie decisions