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Most Americans believe that our military has been strengthened in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks; unfortunately, that is not the case. The core strength of American military forces has continued to erode. Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources, explores a problem that has been building quietly for years: The military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent. Today, our forces are stretched painfully thin by the grinding pace of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world. We have spent billions of dollars on the operational costs of these wars, but very little has been available to replenish the ...

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Most Americans believe that our military has been strengthened in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks; unfortunately, that is not the case. The core strength of American military forces has continued to erode. Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources, explores a problem that has been building quietly for years: The military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent. Today, our forces are stretched painfully thin by the grinding pace of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world. We have spent billions of dollars on the operational costs of these wars, but very little has been available to replenish the military's equipment or increase the size of the Army and the Marine Corps. The result has been a "hollow buildup." The closer one looks at this problem, the greater the strains and potential problems appear: Contributing authors Frederick W. Kagan, Loren Thompson, Robert Work, and Francis G. Hoffman examine the state of each branch of the military, underscoring a range of shortfalls in force strength, structure, and equipment. A simple truth emerges from each of these essays: a military that has less will do less. This is a dangerous situation for a nation with expansive foreign policy goals and global security commitments. The American military may well be the finest fighting force in history, but it cannot escape the fact that numbers matter. This is not the first time the United States has been confronted by sizeable gaps between its strategic ends and its military means, but the stakes in this battle have never been higher.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780844742496
  • Publisher: Aei Press
  • Publication date: 2/25/2007
  • Pages: 180
  • Product dimensions: 5.57 (w) x 8.61 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to Armed Forces Journal. Gary J. Schmitt is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and director of AEI's Program on Advanced Strategic Studies.

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to Armed Forces Journal.

Gary J. Schmitt is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and director of AEI's Program on Advanced Strategic Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Numbers Matter Gary J. Schmitt Schmitt, Gary J. Thomas Donnelly Donnelly, Thomas 5

"More Difficult Than Expected" 7

"Help Was on the Way"-or Not 16

The Long War 20

The 5 Percent Solution 25

2 Protracted Wars and the Army's Future Frederick W. Kagan Kagan, Frederick W. 30

Assumptions 33

The Length of Future Conflicts 33

Technology 37

Indigenous Forces 39

Numbers Matter 43

Conclusion 48

3 Age and Indifference Erode U.S. Air Power Loren Thompson Thompson, Loren 52

Quadrennial Review Neglects Air Power 54

Management Mistakes Erode Space Power 58

Threat Assessments Sow Uncertainty 62

Diverse Threats Drive Demanding Requirements 65

Aerospace Superiority 65

Information Dominance 66

Global Awareness 67

Global Mobility 68

Global Strike 69

A Handful of Programs Will Determine the Fate of Air Power 70

Aerospace Superiority 70

Information Dominance 72

Global Awareness 73

Global Mobility 75

Global Strike 76

Preserving U.S. Air Power Will Require More Money 77

4 Numbers and Capabilities: Building a Navy for the Twenty-First Century Robert O. Work Work, Robert O. 82

Losing Its Lead? 84

Coming to Terms with a 300-Ship Navy 86

But Is It Affordable? 87

Building an Affordable-and Effective-Twenty-First-Century Battle Fleet 90

A Strategy of the Second Move 91

Aircraft Carriers 93

Submarines 96

Small Surface Combatants and Mine-Warfare Vessels 101

Large Surface Combatants 103

The Expeditionary Warfare Fleet 107

An Affordable, Transformed Fleet 111

5 The Marine Corps: A Hybrid Force for a Hybrid World Francis G. Hoffman Hoffman, Francis G. 114

Quo Vadis? 118

A Forcible-Entry Marine Corps 118

ASmall-Wars Marine Corps 124

The Future: A Hybrid Marine Corps 129

Conclusion 134

Appendix 137

Notes 147

About the Authors 167

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