Analysis of Army Force Generation Model Behavior and Expectation Management.

摘要

The 2011 Army Posture Statement posits that the benefits of the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) as a supply based model have yet to be realized because the high demand for war-fighting capabilities exceeded sustainable supply since its implementation. This assertion is erroneous because it overemphasizes supply of units or capabilities over the quality of the units and/or capabilities provided, and disregards all of the institutional efforts required to produce those units and/or capabilities through the ARFORGEN model. The benefits of the ARFORGEN model have not been realized because of a lack in understanding model behavior and its limitations; expectation management practices; and basic supply and demand economic principles by those who strongly promote ARFORGEN as a supply based model. To realize, in full, the benefits of the ARFORGEN model requires the acceptance that expectations must be managed, and that the model has limitations. This acceptance of ARFORGEN as a supply based model must be instituted and espoused throughout the operating and generating force of the Army enterprise, until then, its benefits will never be realized.