Does the Total Force Concept Work?
December 2010
Compiled by Bibliography Branch
Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
Maxwell AFB, AL
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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
Buckman, Gerald A. Making the Future Total Force Work.
Carlisle Barracks, PA, Army War College, March 2006. 16 p.
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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 Security.
National Guard 59:97-102 September 2005.
Also available online at:
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McCarthy, Dennis M. Does the Pentagon Still Believe in the Abrams
Doctrine? Officer 82:40-42 January-February 2006.
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McKinley, Craig R. Air Guard Maps Out a Future, Merging States' Needs
with Total Force. Officer 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.
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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.
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