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-49- A Budgetary Analysis of Cadre
to deploy over the course of a ten-year war in the baseline and cadre forces for each of the
alternatives we analyzed in this chapter. 52
Figure 2.5—Comparison of AC BCTs Available
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+6 BCTs
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+9 BCTs
45
Baseline
Cadre
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Baseline
Cadre
AC BCTs at Home
40
35
30
AC BCTs at Home
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40
35
30
25
25
20
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Year of War
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Year of War
70
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+18 BCTs
Baseline
Cadre
60
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CadreMix
Baseline
Cadre
AC BCTs at Home
50
40
30
20
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Year of War
AC BCTs at Home
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30
20
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Year of War
For all of the forces, we can see that moving to a cadre augmented force reduces the
number of AC BCTs that are available for deployment. This is because all of the cadre
augmented forces analyzed in this paper replace some AC units with cadre units. Year 0
represents peacetime when we assume no AC units are deployed. 53 For the six, nine, and 18
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52 Calculated using the Long War Assignment Model (LWAM). See Appendix B for more detail.
53 This is a simplifying assumption. In reality, AC units will be deployed to meet forward presence
requirements. However, these will have exactly the same impact on the baseline and cadre forces. A peacetime
requirement will simply reduce the number of AC units available in year zero by the size of the peacetime