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This rack contains resources that pertain to the reserve component enterprise as distinct from the ordinary services. For example, matters that are of direct interest to the service-level reserve component offices (such as the National Guard Bureau and Office of the Chief of the Army Reserve) plus matters of relationships between the states and their National Guards should be found here. Matters where the reserve component perspective is a component part of the overall service or Department perspective — such as covered in the Personnel (P), Modernization (M), Readiness (R), and Force Structure (F) aisles — then the reserve components will be given appropriate shelf space in those aisles. Where helpful, the desire will be to provide redundant entries.
This shelf contains general resources on theory and practice in reserve component management and operations — this supplements materials in Aisle P — Personnel, Rack FM — Manning the Force, and mobilization-related materials elsewhere in the Library. This shelf is a stub — please contribute!
Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- DoD Instruction 1215.15H, The Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, June 1996.
- 10 U.S. Code Section 10149, “Ready Reserve.”
Strategies and Reports:
- Graham, David R. (project leader). Evolution of the Military’s Current Active-Reserve Force Mix, Report #D-4968 (Washington, DC: Institute for Defense Analyses, 2015).
- Johnson, Casey E. The Changing Role of the United States Coast Guard Reservist (master’s thesis, American Public University, 2012), https://media.defense.gov/2021/Sep/30/2002864732/-1/-1/0/JOHNSONCASEYUSCGRPROGMATHESIS2012.PDF
- National Guard Bureau, 2013 National Guard Bureau Posture Statement: Security America Can Afford (Washington, DC: National Guard Bureau, 2013).
- Schultz, Karl L., “Reserve Component: Policy Statement” (memorandum, Washington, DC: Office of the Coast Guard Commandant, 2010.
- U.S. Army Reserve, Army Reserve Vision & Strategy 2020 (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief, Army Reserve, 2011).
- U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Vision & Strategy 2012-2017: Ready, Relevent, Responsive (Washington, DC: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 2010).
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- Chapman, Dennis P., Manning Reserve Component Units for Mobilization: Army and Air Force Practice, The Land Warfare Papers #74 (Washington, DC: Institute of Land Warfare, 2009), https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/LWP-74-Manning-Reserve-Component-Units-for-Mobilization-Army-and-Air-Force-Practice.pdf
- Eaglen, Mackenzie. “The Commission on the National Guard and Reserves: Reforming the Reserve Component,” Heritage Foundation, February 4, 2008, https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/the-commission-the-national-guard-and-reserves-reforming-the-reserve-component
- Hendell, Garri. “Missteps in the Peacetime Mobilization of the Reserve Component,” WAR ROOM, February 17, 2023, https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/blankets-2/
- Kapp, Lawrence and Barbara Salazar Torreon, Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers, Report #RL30802 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service), https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/details?prodcode=RL30802
- Schumacher, Ludwig J. “Dual Status Command for No-Notice Events: Integrating the Military Response to Domestic Disasters,” Homeland Security Affairs 7, no. 1 (February 2011): 1-11, https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/25063/5.pdf
- U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, Reservist 54 (2013) — full magazine.
This shelf provides resources associated with comprehensive or significant reviews of the reserve component enterprise that often combine roles and missions reviews, unique personnel and materiel issues, and the RC’s connection with civil society. These are service-independent — encompassing a reserve component across all the services.
Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- None.
Strategies and Reports:
- 2008 Commission on the National Guard and Reserves (CNGR), Strengthening America’s Defenses in the New Security Environment:
- CNGR, Second Report to Congress, March 1, 2007.
- CNGR, Final Report to the Secretary of Defense, January 31, 2008. Also available is the Executive Summary
- DoD, “Recommendations of the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves,” memo, November 24, 2008.
- Wormuth, Christine. “The CNGR Final Report: The Best Shot for a Stronger, Sustainable Reserve Component,” Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, February 1, 2008, https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/media/csis/pubs/080201_wormuth_cngr.pdf
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- None.
This shelf covers the specific challenges of employing the reserve components, covering the various phases of activation through de-mobilization. Resources also include enterprise-level readiness concerns unique to the RC such as impacts to civilian employment.
Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- DoD Directive 1235.10, Activation, Mobilization, and Demobilization of the Ready Reserve, 1995.
- DoD Instruction 1235.12, Accessing the Reserve Components (RC), Change 1 (2017).
Strategies and Reports:
- Defense Science Board, Deployment of Members of the National Guard and Reserve in the Global War on Terrorism (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, September 2007).
- Farrell, Brenda S. Military Personnel: Reserve Component Servicemembers on Average Earn More Income while Activated, Report #GAO-09-688R (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2009).
- Gilmore, J. Michael, Issues that Affect the Readiness of the Army National Guard and Reserve, statement before the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, 2007).
- Pickup, Sharon. MILITARY PERSONNEL: DOD Lacks Reliable Personnel Tempo Data and Needs Quality Controls to Improve Data Accuracy, Report #GAO-07-780 (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2007).
- Pickup, Sharon. RESERVE FORCES: Army Needs to Reevaluate Its Approach to Training and Mobilizing Reserve Component Forces, Report #GAO-09-720 (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2009).
- Stewart, Derek B. MILITARY PERSONNEL: Top Management Attention Is Needed to Address Long-standing Problems with Determining Medical and Physical Fitness of the Reserve Force, Report #GAO-06-105 (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2005).
- Stewart, Derek B. MILITARY PERSONNEL: DOD and the Services Need to Take Additional Steps to Improve Mobilization Data for the Reserve Components, Report #GAO-06-1068 (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2006).
- Waterhouse, Michael and JoAnne O’Bryant, National Guard Personnel and Deployments: Fact Sheet, Report #RS22451 (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, 2008).
- Woodring, William O. The Role of the Army Force Generation Model in Preparing the National Guard and Reserve for Future Operations (master’s thesis, Fort Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College, 2007).
- Woods, Michael J. Transforming the USARNG: Challenges in Implementing the ARFORGEN Model (strategy research project, Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2009).
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- Korb, Lawrence J. and Sean Duggan, Caught Off Guard: The Link Between Our National Security and Our National Guard (Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2007), https://www.americanprogress.org/article/caught-off-guard/
This shelf covers the general policy debate between the reserves serving as an operational or strategic reserve. The latter had been the traditional view whereby the active forces conducted operations first until such time as additional resources were needed in the force of mobilized reserves.
Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- ASA (M&RA), Transforming the Army’s Reserve Components into an Operational Force, March 2010.
- DoD, Managing the Reserve Components as an Operational Force, white paper, October 2008.
- DoD Directive 1200.17, Managing the Reserve Components as an Operational Force, 2008.
- National Guard Bureau, “Definition of Operational Reserve Force,” information paper, September 11, 2009.
Strategies and Reports:
- Berglund, Mark J. Improving Readiness in the United States Army National Guard (strategy research project, Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2017).
- Pendleton, John. RESERVE FORCES: Army Needs to Finalize an Implementation Plan and Funding Strategy for Sustaining an Operational Reserve Force, Report #GAO-09-898 (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2009).
- Perkins, John J. Follow and Assume: The Operational Reserve in Security, Stability, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations (master’s thesis, Fort Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College, 2007).
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- None.
This shelf covers so-called Total Force Policies, which are generally intended to overcome the structural and cultural differences between active and reserve components in order to harmonize the services or defense enterprise.
Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- Army Directive 2012-08, Army Total Force Policy.
- Also, SECARMY, “Implementation of Army Total Force Policy,” memorandum dated September 25, 2013.
Strategies and Reports:
- Burrelli, David F. (coordinator). FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Issues, Report #R43647 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2014).
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- None.
This shelf includes resources specific to historical accounts of reserve component utilization in war, ordinarily focusing on how they experience warfighting differently from active forces.
Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- None.
Strategies and Reports:
- Brady II, James T., Ready to Serve? The 48th, 155th, and 256th Brigades and the Roundout Concept During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (master’s thesis, Fort Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College, 2007).
- Cantwell, Gerald T., Citizen Airmen: History of the Air Force Reserve 1946-1994 (Washington, DC: U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, 1997).
- Rosenfeld, Susan and Charles J. Gross, Air National Guard at 60: A History (Washington, DC: Department of the Air Force, 2001).
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- None.
Title image credit: Master Sgt. Matt Hecht via NationalGuard.mil, public domain.
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