Calculating the Training Demand in an Expanding Military Organisation: An Analytical Solution

摘要

The note presents an analytical solution for the calculation of training demand of an expanding military force. Two methods for deriving the solution for this problem have been proposed. The first method is based on a geometric series and demostrates the method currently used by the Australian Army (a method the Army calls the 'cyclic' process). The second method is based on a top down formulation of the same problem, and does not require infinite series and has fewer terms involved in the derivation of a soluation. This method is potentially easier for Army officers to use for solving similar manpower planning, problems in the future.