Considering a Cadre Augmented Army - RAND Corporation

-132- A Budgetary Analysis of Cadre
We begin this analysis by making an assumption about the peacetime requirement
for deployed forces and the distribution of AC forces when a war breaks out. First, we
assume that nine deployed BCTs are required in every year during peacetime. Second, we
assume that AC forces are uniformly distributed across states when a war breaks out. Table
C.1 shows the distribution of AC forces at the time a war breaks out for a force with 42 AC
BCTs and a peacetime requirement of nine BCTs.
Table C.1—Pre-War Distribution of AC Forces
Deployed (months)
Home (months)
State 0 4 8 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40
AC BCTs 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Assuming a uniform initial distribution of forces when a war occurs, we reproduced
the analyses performed in Chapter Two.
C.1.1—Growing the Force with Cadre
When AC forces are uniformly distributed at the beginning of a war, there is no
effect on AC stress for the forces that add AC units (+6, 9, 18 AC BCTs). There is only a
change in AC stress for the cadre augmented forces. For a uniform distribution of forces,
stress on the AC is decreased for the six and nine BCT expansions as shown in Figure C.1.