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Counterinsurgency on the Ground in Afghanistan
November 15, 2010

This book provides a glimpse into what relatively small military units—teams, platoons, companies, and highly dispersed battalions—have done to roll back the insurgency in some of the more remote areas of Afghanistan. The focus is on counterinsurgency at the tactical and local levels.

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Marine Corps Separation Rates: What's Happened Since FY 00
October 1, 2008
As the Marine Corps continues its growth toward an active-duty endstrength of 202,000, it needs to reduce the rate of separations (including end-of-active-service (EAS) and non-EAS separations) for enlisted Marines and officers. In this document, we examine separation rates over the FY00 to FY07 period and assess their patterns. We find that, despite high operational tempo, average separation rates for enlisted personnel, warrant officers, and commissioned officers were actually lower in FY07 than in FY00. There were, however, small increases in separation rates for some subgroups, including females, retirement-eligible aviators, and ground officers with 7 to 10 years of completed service. Still, the overall pattern of separation rates indicates no worrisome trend.
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Manpower Performance Indicators: Final Report
April 1, 2007
The Marine Corps devotes about 65 percent of its budget to personnel costs. Accurate and meaningful measures of effectiveness are needed to ensure the efficient and effective running of the manpower process and to identify possible problems. Thus, manpower performance indicators (MPIs) have been developed to measure performance to provide decision-makers with up-to-date information on a Marine Corps website. The annotated briefing describes 3 types of indicators. The first set of indicators is designed to measure stress on the force. These include rates of domestic and child abuse, divorce, desertions, suicides, attrition, and positive drug tests. They also include information on lost leave, the percentages of Marines receiving family separation allowance, and the number of Marines involved in exercise or unit training each month. The second set of indicators is for entry-level training. The indicators, by military occupational specialty, show average the length of entry-level training and the number of Marines trained in every 12-month period for the last two years. The third set of indicators is for Civilian Marines, both in the appropriated and non-appropriated workforce. These indicators allow the user to look at characteristics of the workforce (age, gender, race/ethnic background, prior military service, etc).
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