Training as We Will Fight: Institutionalizing Permanent Joint Task Forces Within the Unified Commands and Abolishing the 'Just in Time' Approach to Crisis Management.

摘要

This paper seeks to demonstrate that given the current international security environment, the Defense Department should undertake two major initiatives to increase the readiness of our Armed Forces: first, to restructure the geographic unified commands from the existing Service Component framework into a series of standing, task organized JTFs that would each be assigned distinct geographic sectors to manage; and second, to direct substantial increases in the exercise of troops either assigned or task organized to standing JTFs for contingency operations. This study will argue that the best way for U.S. forces to develop the characteristics to deal effectively with the full spectrum of future threats is to restructure the Geographic Unified Commands and redefine the general approach to training and exercising of joint forces in the Armed Forces.