Creating an Effective Regional Alignment Strategy for the U.S. Army

Bukowski, Raven; Childress, John; Colarusso, Michael J; Lyle, David S.

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“…To get the most out of the RAF concept, the Army must transform its personnel management system to optimize talent use. 67 Enhanced talent management would assign an identifier for regional alignment at the field-grade level for officers to indicate specific regional experience. This identifier, like other skills, would be a descriptive criteria when determining future assignments, as an army skill identifier (ASI) or a secondary MOS code like the foreign area officer letter designation after the '48' denoting regional focus.…”

Section: United States Army War College Student Publicationsmentioning

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RAF and JTF Capable HQs

Davis¹,

Balcavage²

2015

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A Regionally Engaged Army shapes and sets theaters for regional commanders employing unique Total Army characteristics and capabilities to influence the security environment, build trust, develop relationships, and gain access through rotational forces, multilateral exercises, mil-to-mil engagements, coalition training, and other opportunities.-General Raymond Odierno 1 Regionally Aligned Forces are the ways that the Army will accomplish its ends or vision of being "globally responsive and regionally engaged" with reduced means in forces, headquarters, and budgets. For the last decade the U.S. Army focused on Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Central Command (CENTCOM) was the United States' main effort while other combatant commands were economies of force in respect to force allocation. 2 With the end of OEF and OIF, the U.S. Army has an opportunity to shape itself for the future challenges of reduction in force levels, fiscal resource constraints, global threats, and withdrawal of forward-deployed U.S. forces. Senior leaders in the Army seized that opportunity in 2010 by introducing the concept of Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF). 3 Initially applied to brigade combat teams (BCTs), the RAF concept expanded to corps and division headquarters in 2012. 4 Achieving the Army Vision through the RAF concept requires stronger commitment in habitual alignment of headquarters, units, and individuals, and holistic commitment by the joint community and the Army in enabling corps and divisions to be joint task force capable headquarters. 5 Regionally aligned corps and division headquarters provide the mission command and operational linkage between the geographic combatant commanders (GCC) and tactical forces. This paper establishes the historical context of how America has postured forces, and then explains the interconnection between the Joint Vision 2020, the Army Vision, and RAF concept to ensure effective forces for the future. Next, the paper examines the impact of RAF and the importance of the corps and division headquarters as JTFs in certification, augmentation, alignment, and employment. Finally, the paper discusses the issues and opportunities of the RAF concept across current doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, and facility (DOTMLPF) systems. 124 Regionally Aligned Forces: Concept Viability and Implementation United States Army War College Student Publications preponderance of the force being CONUS-based resulted in operational requirements for smaller, selfcontained brigade elements. 7 Modular division and corps headquarters could serve in the roles of army forces commander (ARFOR), joint forces land component commander (JFLCC), or JTF headquarters in which to "plug" the needed mix of brigades and subordinate elements to accomplish missions. 8 The simultaneous execution of OEF and OIF required the Army to focus on a highly-effective and efficient system to rotate ready modular forces in support of CENTCOM through the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) process...

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Section: United States Army War College Student Publicationsmentioning

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RAF and JTF Capable HQs

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Balcavage²

2015

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“…The problem is matching soldiers who have expertise with the positions that require it. As researchers at the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute have found, that places managing soldiers to support RAF squarely within the larger context of talent management (Bukowski et al, 2014). This chapter proposes measures that can enable personnel managers to identify, track, and measure regional expertise and implement a talent management approach to support RAF.…”

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“…It contrasts with the current military personnel system that assigns soldiers based simply on CMF and grade. Army analysts have already identified talent management as being critical to RAF's implementation (Bukowski et al, 2014).…”

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A Preliminary Assessment of the Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF) Concept's Implications for Army Personnel Management

Markel¹,

Hallmark²,

Schirmer³

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Creating an Effective Regional Alignment Strategy for the U.S. Army

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RAF and JTF Capable HQs

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A Preliminary Assessment of the Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF) Concept's Implications for Army Personnel Management

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