Considering a Cadre Augmented Army - RAND Corporation

-48- A Budgetary Analysis of Cadre
decision for the DoD. Overall, this cadre augmented force reduces annual costs by $11
billion averaged over periods of peace and war and $13 billion in peacetime but increases
military risk as measured by deviation from rotation guidance.
In this chapter, we calculated the cost savings from four different cadre augmented
forces. Each of these cadre forces is compared against a different baseline force. Table 2.2
shows the structure of each cadre augmented force, its baseline, and the steady-state number
of units each can provide when used according to rotation guidance.
Table 2.2—Cadre Force Structure Alternatives and Baselines
Baseline Cadre Augmented Steady-
AC RC Cadre AC RC Cadre State
+6 Cadre 48 28 0 42 28 6 19
+9 Cadre 51 28 0 42 28 6 20
+18 Cadre 60 28 0 42 28 18 23
CadreMix 48 28 0 35 19 16 19
2.3—OTHER MEASURES OF MILITARY RISK
Thus far, we have measured military risk as AC deviation from rotation guidance.
However, other measures of military risk are also important. One of these measures, which
was commonly used during the Cold War, is the number of BCTs that would be available to
deploy immediately at the onset of hostilities. During the Cold War, the force was sized so
there would be enough BCTs available to fight two simultaneous wars. As discussed in the
introduction, only AC BCTs are ready to deploy immediately. Therefore, as another measure
of military risk we calculated the number of AC BCTs available for deployment over the
course of a ten-year war. We began by assuming that all AC BCTs that were not deployed
would be available for deployment. Figure 2.5 compares the number of AC BCTs available