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U.S. Army units must be ready to deploy rapidly in the event of a contingency. During peacetime operations, the Army maintains inventory to support training and to maintain readiness. When a contingency occurs, deployed operating tempo often leads to increased demands for sustainment materiel for units involved in the operation, leading to an increase in global sustainment demands. Additional sustainment materiel is needed not only to maintain unit readiness in the face of these higher demand rates until the production base can respond but also to relieve the initial strain on the supply chain by reducing early airlift requirements. The war reserve secondary items (WRSI) portion of the sustainment stock within Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) is designed to address these two issues of production capacity gaps and early airlift requirements. Historically, the computed WRSI requirements have not been fully funded. Yet no methodology exists by which war reserve requirements can be prioritized. Rather, after the requirements are computed, a time-intensive, decentralized review process is used to allocate resources to determine what portion of the requirement will be funded and where it will be positioned. Thus, as part of an ongoing, formal process for determining WRSI stocks around the world, the Army asked the RAND Arroyo Center to develop techniques outside the Army's legacy system to prioritize item-level spending on war reserve materiel for a Northeast Asia contingency scenario with a known deployment schedule. The Army requested a quick-turn, 60-day product that (1) used empirical demand data to drive the allocation, (2) determined which items should be forward positioned versus stored in the continental United States (CONUS) and delivered via airlift, and (3) allocated the budgeted fiscal year (FY) 2007 funding.

Resource allocation --- Inventories --- Military education --- Military readiness --- Deployment (Strategy) --- Military planning --- Planning. --- United States. --- Supplies and stores. --- Appropriations and expenditures.

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Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was an American naval officer, considered one of the most important naval strategists of the nineteenth century. In 1885 he was appointed Lecturer in Naval History and Tactics at the US Naval War College, and became President of the institution between 1886-1889. This highly influential volume, first published in 1890, contains Mahan's analysis of naval warfare and tactics between 1660-1783. Mahan discusses and analyses the factors which led to Britain's naval domination during the eighteenth century, and recommends various naval strategies based on these factors. His work was closely studied by contemporary military powers, with his tactics adopted by many major navies in the years preceding the First World War. This volume is considered one of the most influential published works on naval strategy, and is invaluable for the study of naval warfare both before and during the First World War.

Naval history, Modern. --- Sea-power. --- Dominion of the sea --- Military power --- Naval policy --- Navy --- Sea, Dominion of the --- Seapower --- Military readiness --- Naval art and science --- Naval history --- Naval strategy --- Navies --- Modern naval history

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Military policy --- National security --- Sociology, Military --- Military sociology --- military studies --- defence --- tactics --- capabilities --- strategy --- social sciences --- Military policy. --- National security. --- Sociology, Military. --- Armed Forces --- Armies --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Defense policy --- Military readiness --- Military history --- Political aspects --- Government policy

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This volume describes and critically analyzes piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas region from the 16th century to the present. It takes a radical departure from the standard terra-centred histories by placing the seas at the centre rather than at the margins of our inquiries.

Sea-power --- Smuggling --- Piracy --- Dominion of the sea --- Military power --- Naval policy --- Navy --- Sea, Dominion of the --- Seapower --- Military readiness --- Naval art and science --- Naval history --- Naval strategy --- Navies --- Contraband trade --- Crime --- Customs administration --- Maritime piracy --- Offenses against public safety --- History. --- China Sea Region --- S11/0815 --- History --- China: Social sciences--Pirates --- E-books

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Taking Aim at the Arms Trade takes a critical look at the ways in which NGOs portray the arms trade as a problem of international politics and the strategies they use to effect change. Anna Stavrianakis exposes the tensions inherent in NGOs' engagement with the arms trade and argues for a re-examination of dominant assumptions about NGOs as global civil society actors.

Arms control. --- Non-governmental organizations --- Arms transfers. --- Defense industries. --- Armements --- Organisations non-gouvernementales --- Armes --- Industrie militaire --- Influence --- Contrôle --- Vente --- Non-governmental organizations -- Influence. --- Law, Politics & Government --- International Relations --- Influence. --- Contrôle --- INGOs (International agencies) --- International non-governmental organizations --- NGOs (International agencies) --- Nongovernmental organizations --- Organizations, Non-governmental (International agencies) --- Private and voluntary organizations (International agencies) --- PVOs (International agencies) --- Armaments industries --- Arms sales --- Military sales --- Military supplies industry --- Munitions --- Sale of military equipment --- Arms traffic --- Foreign military sales --- International agencies --- Nonprofit organizations --- Industries --- Arms transfers --- International trade --- Arms race --- Defense industries --- Military assistance --- Security, International --- Disarmament --- Military readiness --- Arms negotiation & control