Would any professional sports team trade half their players every year and skip pre-season training?
Of course not, yet this is how the US Army fights wars. Soldiers need to train for months to develop teamwork. However, the continual turnover of personnel makes training difficult. The solution is “rotational readiness”, an idea used by the US Navy and Marine Corps where a units or ships train for a six-months prior to a six-month forward deployment. All peacetime Armies should adopt this concept, but with an 18-month cycle to increase the “ready for war” period to one year. Units should rotate readiness in groups of three, among divisions, brigades, or battalions. For this example, we’ll rotate brigades, so an Army division can have two “ready” brigades, and one “refit” brigade. Each brigade rotates through an 18-month cycle with 6-months of refit followed by 12-months “ready”, which fits nicely into the typical four-year personnel tours. Most all new soldiers finish their basic and advanced training within a year, so they can spend three years in two 18-month cycles with the same un
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