Considering a Cadre Augmented Army - RAND Corporation

-98- A Budgetary Analysis of Cadre
l
3
1 N fi
N i = 1
= ∑
Table A.3 shows the fraction of time cadre units are mobilized over the course of a ten-year
war for each of the four cadre augmented forces examined in this paper.
Table A.3—Fraction of Time Cadre Units Mobilized in Wartime
Force l 3
+6 Cadre BCT 0.78
+9 Cadre BCT 0.73
+18 Cadre BCT 0.58
CadreMix 0.62
These calculations assume that all wars last ten years. These values will differ for
wars of different lengths. We calculated l 3 for wars ranging in length from zero to thirty years
in order to calculate the sensitivity of average long-run cost savings to the frequency of war
in Chapter Three of this paper. Figure A.1 shows how l 3 varies for wars ranging in length
from zero to thirty years for each of the cadre augmented forces analyzed in this paper. We
assume a thirty-year time horizon in all of the analyses in this paper so the length of war is
represented as a frequency.
Figure A.1—Sensitivity of l 3 to Frequency (Length) of Wars
100%
% Wartime Cadre Units Mobilized (l )
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
6 BCT
9 BCT
18 BCT
CadreMix
10%
0% 17% 33% 50% 67% 83% 100%
Frequency of War