TOTAL FORCE CONCEPT

OTS Topic

Does the Total Force Concept Work?


December 2010

Compiled by Bibliography Branch
Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
Maxwell AFB, AL


Contents

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Internet Resources


Air Force Reserve Command Home Page.
Available online at:  http://www.afrc.af.mil/

Click on News and Information.

Air National Guard Home Page.
Available online at:  http://www.ang.af.mil/

GlobalSecurity.org.
Enter total force in search box.
Available online at: 
http://www.globalsecurity.org/  


Books


Dailey, Kevin S.  Air National Guard Structure for the Twenty-First Century:  The Multimission Framework for Total Force Integration.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air University  Press, 2006.  39 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA484443
Book call no.:  358.4137 D133a

Lynch, Kristin F. and others.  Supporting the Future Total Force:  A Methodology for Evaluating Potential Air National Guard Mission Assignments.  Santa Monica, CA,  RAND, 2007.  218 p.
Also available online at:  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG539.pdf
Book call no.:  358.4137 S959

Thie, Henry J. and others.  Fiscally Informed Total Force Manpower.  Santa Monica, CA, RAND, 2008.  81 p.
Also available online at:  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG606.pdf
Book call no.:  358.610973 F528


Tripp, Robert S. and others.  Strategic Analysis of Air National Guard Combat Support and Reachback Functions.  Santa Monica, CA, RAND, 2006.  143 p.
Also available online at:  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2006/RAND_MG375.pdf
Book call no.:  358.4141 S898


Documents (Student Research)


Buckman, Gerald A.  Making the Future Total Force Work.  Carlisle Barracks, PA, Army War College, March 2006.  16 p.
Also available online at: 
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA448838
Doc call no.:  M-U 39080-537 B9251m

Cotter, Patrick.  Total Force Policy Making and the Air National Guard:  A Way Ahead.  Maxwell AFB, AL, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, June 2008.  51 p.
Also available online at:  https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/display.aspx?moduleid=be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153&mode=user&action=downloadpaper&objectid=548272e2-9bb4-41d5-96ff-28789b0d5ab9&rs=PublishedSearch
Doc call no.:  M-U 439981-1 C847t


Herd, Jeffrey A.  The Fully Integrated Wing (AC/ANG):  Does the Air Force Have It Right?  Carlisle Barracks, PA, Army War College, March 2006.  16 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA449354
Doc call no.:  M-U 39080-537 H5411f


Huguelet, Charles T.  The Dual Status of the National Guard and the Total Force.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College, April 2002.  38 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA420536
Doc call no.:  M-U 43117 4897d


Lawson, Byron W.  The Use of the Reserve Component in Small Wars.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College, April 2008.  34 p.
Also available online at:  https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/display.aspx?moduleid=be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153&mode=user&action=downloadpaper&objectid=f15f2780-98b3-4847-917d-a22fe2f53aef&rs=PublishedSearch
Doc call no.:  M-U 43122 L4251u

Mercer, Walter L.  Sustaining the National Guard as an Operational Force.  Carlisle Barracks, PA, Army War College, January 2010.  26 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA518160
Doc call no.:  M-U 39080-537 M554s

Oates, Robert S.  Total Force Integration:  Reserve Component Associate Missions.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College, February 2008.  31 p.
Also available online at:  https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/display.aspx?moduleid=be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153&mode=user&action=downloadpaper&objectid=ac28dfa1-0070-4190-9d6b-8c9b8fded32a&rs=PublishedSearch
Doc call no.:  M-U 43117 O111t

Sotallaro, Mark.  Guilt by Association?  A Blending of Air Force Cultures.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College, April 2008.  33 p.
Also available online at:  https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/display.aspx?moduleid=be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153&mode=user&action=downloadpaper&objectid=fb16cd54-63ea-4bb4-83b3-01881fde0698&rs=PublishedSearch
Doc call no.:  M-U 43122 S717g
 


Periodicals


Bunting, Tod.  More for Less:  Integrating the Army and Air Force Reserves into the Guard Is One Way for the Nation to Get Something It Needs Now More Than Ever.  National Guard 64:22-24 July 2010.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=2089547741&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Desjarlais, Orville F., Jr.  New Program Combines Total Force.  Airman 50:38-43 Spring 2006.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1024818511&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Grant, Rebecca.  Total Force Turbulence:  Pentagon, Congress, States, and Governors Struggled to Set the Right Course for the Air National Guard.  Air Force Magazine 88:44-49 October 2005.
Also available online at:  http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2005/October 2005/1005ang.aspx

Herbert, Adam J.  Can the Total Force Hold Together?  Air Force Magazine 90:26-31 June 2007.
Also available online at:  http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2007/June 2007/0607force.aspx

Lowenberg, Timothy J.  The Role of the National Guard in National Defense and Homeland SecurityNational Guard 59:97-102 September 2005.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=904072651&sid=2&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

McCarthy, Dennis M.  Does the Pentagon Still Believe in the Abrams Doctrine?  Officer 82:40-42 January-February 2006.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=977789701&sid=3&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

McKinley, Craig R.  Air Guard Maps Out a Future, Merging States' Needs with Total ForceOfficer 82:58-61 December 2006.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1186126641&sid=4&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Resetting the Total Force.  Officer 83:25-35 February 2007.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1275575031&sid=5&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Tirpak, John A.  Integrated Total Force.  Air Force Magazine 91:24-29 March 2008.
Also available online at:  http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2008/March 2008/0308integrated.aspx

Tirpak, John A.  Is the Total Force Aging Out?  Air Force Magazine 92:22-27 June 2009.
"The Guard and Reserve have an 'old aircraft' problem.  Proposed fighter cuts will make it more acute." - Article
Also available online at:  http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2009/June 2009/0609totalforce.aspx

Valentine, W. Mark and Conroy, Shawn F.  Achieving a Cost-Effective Balance in the Department of Defense:  Concurrent and Proportional Recapitalization of the Air National Guard.  Air & Space Power Journal 24:48-60 Spring 2010.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=2056861461&sid=2&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD


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