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Implementing Readiness-Based Sparing in the Marine Aviation Logistics Support Program: Readiness Implications
December 1, 1995
The Marine Aviation Logistics Support Program (MALSP) was developed to ensure that all logistics support required for major regional contingency can be deployed quickly and efficiently when needed. The foundation for the MALSP is a set of standardized logistics support packages containing all the elements (spare parts, people, support equipment, and mobile facilities) required to support any contingency plan the Marine Corps may be tasked to execute. This study focuses on how the Marine should determine spare parts requirements for the MALSP. Specifically, we were asked by the Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation, Headquarters Marine Corps to help them answer two questions: What are the potentia
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Marine Corps Deployment Concepts: A Paper for the 1986 Sea Power Forum
November 1, 1986
Describes the various deployment options developed by the Marine Corps over the past decade. The report begins with a brief discussion of the history, mission, and organization of the Marine Corps. Then, after describing the methods of deployment, it examines the effect the deployment techniques have had on the way the Marine Corps employs its forces in peacetime.
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Optempo and Training Effectiveness
December 1, 1984
This paper presents the association between nondeployed activities and training readiness.
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An Analysis of Recent Conflicts
August 1, 1974
Three hundred eighty conflicts initiated during the years 1946-1964 are analysed. The analysis of recent conflicts has three major advantages: (1) to confirm or counter assumptions about limited warfare situations in the period 1946-1964 to provide greater validity in predicting such situations in the future; (2) to identify the major variables involved in the various kinds of recent conflicts so that these variables will be used appropriately in the analysis of future conflicts of a similar type; and (3) to provide a data base from which important implications about the nature of recent conflicts may be derived so that effective processes of deterrence and control may be perceived for future application.
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