Rotational Deployments vs. Forward Stationing: How Can the Army Achieve Assurance and Deterrence Efficiently and Effectively?

Authors

John R. Deni, Strategic Studies InstituteFollow

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Description

The Department of Defense can achieve deterrence and assurance objectives more effectively and efficiently through a rebalancing of its force posture. The Army should reverse the trend of the last 2 decades and forward station additional heavy units in Europe and on the Korean Peninsula, while ending lengthy, heel-to-toe rotational noncombat deployments.

Publication Date

8-25-2017

Publisher

USAWC Press

City

Carlisle

Keywords

deployment, rotational deployment

Disciplines

Defense and Security Studies

Recommended Citation

John R. Deni, Rotational Deployments vs. Forward Stationing: How Can the Army Achieve Assurance and Deterrence Efficiently and Effectively? (Carlisle: US Army War College Press, 2017),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/931