THE FUTURE OF THE ARMY

APPENDIX B:
RECOMMENDATIONS BY RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL
JOINT STAFF
Recommendation 23: The Secretary of Defense and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should report to Congress
within a year on a strategic mobility sufficiency analysis and
associated risk mitigation plan from 2020 through 2040.
COMBATANT COMMANDS
Recommendation 10: The Army must assist Combatant
Commands and Army Service Component Commands with
timely integration of force structure changes into their strategic
planning process.
Recommendation 11: Combatant Commands and Army
Service Component Commands must update all war plans
with current and programmed force structure and doctrine and
establish a process to ensure routine war plan and Time Phased
Force Deployment Data updates at a minimum of once every
two years.
Recommendation 19: The Army should ensure Combatant
Commands (COCOM) and Army Service Component
Commands (ASCC) have the ability to provide operational
mission command in proportion to the unique mission for each
COCOM. The Army should consult closely with COCOM
and ASCC commanders to assess the risks entailed in mission
command changes and seek to minimize risk where possible
when implementing them.
ARMY
Recommendation 7: The Army must continue to treat
readiness as its most important funding priority.
Recommendation 8: The Army should provide the Congress
with an assessment of risks in current and planned tactical
mobility. This assessment should be completed within one year
of publication of this report and include the costs and potential
tradeoffs for closing significant readiness gaps in this area.
Recommendation 9: The Army must reassess the risk it
is assuming in modernization for aviation survivability,
SHORAD, CBRN, field artillery, and Army watercraft.
Recommendation 10: The Army must assist Combatant
Commands and Army Service Component Commands with
timely integration of force structure changes into their strategic
planning process.
Recommendation 13: The President should revise strategic
and budget guidance to the Department of Defense based
on changes in the security environment. The Department of
Defense should then use this revised guidance as the basis for
revising its planning guidance, and the Army should adjust its
structure, readiness, and modernization plans accordingly.
Recommendation 14: The Army should forward station an
Armored Brigade Combat Team in Europe.
Recommendation 15: The Army should convert the U.S.
Army Europe administrative aviation headquarters to a
warfighting mission command element similar to a Combat
Aviation Brigade headquarters.
Recommendation 16: The Army should maintain a forwardstationed
Combat Aviation Brigade in Korea.
Recommendation 17: The Army should retain eleven Combat
Aviation Brigades in the Regular Army.
Recommendation 18: The Army should increase Armored
Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) capacity based on the current
and projected threat environment. Risk may be acceptable
without additional ABCT structure if the Army stations an
ABCT in Europe, per recommendation 14.
Recommendation 19: The Army should ensure Combatant
Commands (COCOM) and Army Service Component
Commands (ASCC) have the ability to provide operational
mission command in proportion to the unique mission for each
COCOM. The Army should consult closely with COCOM
and ASCC commanders to assess the risks entailed in mission
command changes and seek to minimize risk where possible
when implementing them.
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