Considering a Cadre Augmented Army - RAND Corporation

-112- A Budgetary Analysis of Cadre
type of demand. The user must first specify a low demand for the periods before a war
breaks out. This helps determine the initial condition of forces when a war occurs. For all
the analyses carried out in the body of this paper, we assume a low demand of zero. Second,
the user must specify the number of periods in the low demand state. For all of the analyses
carried out in this paper, we assume low demand lasts one period so that we can specify an
initial distribution of units in the period immediately before a war begins. Next, we specify
the constant demand for forces during wartime, which is labeled high demand. This
parameter is varied for different analyses carried out in the main body of the paper. 134 Next,
we specify the number of periods that the war will last. For the analyses in this paper, we
assume that wars last on average ten years (30 trimesters). Lastly, we specify the number of
periods for the for the Time-phased deployment (TPD) graph. This graph is discussed in the
outputs subsection.
Supply of Forces
The supply of forces available to be deployed in any given period is determined by
the deployment restrictions and readiness specified for each force by the user. The
parameters specifying the supply of forces are split into two sections. The first section
specifies the readiness of cadre units. The second section specifies the readiness and usage
parameters for AC and RC units.
The user of the LWAM must specify three inputs for cadre readiness. These inputs
are shown in Figure B.4.
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134 The wartime demand for the analyses performed in this paper was set to the highest integer level of
demand that the force structure could sustain over the long term. For instance, a force with 42 AC, 28 RC, and
6 cadre BCTs can sustain 19.1 BCTs deployed so the wartime demand was set to 19 BCTs.