The Effective Use of Reserve Personnel In The U.S. Military. Lessons from The United Kingdom Reserve Model 12+

📖 The U.S. Army and the British Army are undergoingsimilar processes of rebalancing between regularand reserve personnel. The British armed forces arecurrently at a more advanced stage of this change thanthe United States, and consequently there are usefullessons to be drawn from their experience to date. Thisis particularly the case in a time of growing defenseausterity; in addition to their smaller scale, the UnitedKingdom's (UK) armed forces have great familiaritywith undertaking missions and maintaining close tofull-spectrum capability while subject to severe andapparently insurmountable resource constraints.Studying how this is made possible may also providevaluable pointers for a U.S. defense force in an era ofsequestration and budget cuts.