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Thinking About Military Retirement

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As part of the report of the 10th QRMC, the purpose of this paper is to provide readers with a discussion of the issues relating to the military retirement system. To set the stage for the discussion that follows, the first section outlines what a personnel system should do. Here, the purposes of compensation and personnel policy are reviewed and certain institutional constraints that influence the structure of the military compensation system are identified. Following that, the second section highlights the structure of the current compensation system and the outcomes that result from this structure.

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Wargaming and Analysis Presentation for MORS Special Meeting

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CNA's presentation at the MORS special meeting provided an overview of wargaming and analysis.

the universe as the game progresses. My colleagues at CNA—including Mike Markowitz, Ed McGrady, and Al Nofi—and I have tried to characterize the key dimensions of this wargaming universe a couple of times

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change

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CNA’s Military Advisory Board finds that climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability and poses a serious threat to America’s national security.

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change National Security and the Threat of Climate Change CNA’s Military Advisory Board finds that climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability and poses a serious threat to America’s national security. The purpose of this study is to examine the national security consequences of climate change. A dozen of the nation’s most respected retired admirals and generals have served as a Military Advisory Board to study how climate change could affect our nation’s security over the next 30 to 40 years—the time frame for developing new military

Wargaming Fourth-Generation Warfare

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Our research into the concepts embodied by the term Fourth Generation Warfare showed how important it is to distinguish what is new from what only seems new, and to understand the necessity of merging the two.

and asymmetric methods. The NWC asked CNA to work with its staff to develop gaming techniques to address these warfare issues more effectively. We approached this problem along several avenues

Fiscally Informed Military Manpower Requirements

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There is concern that requirements for the Navy’s military manpower are being developed with insufficient attention to cost.

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Alternative Sea Manning Concepts

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In this paper, we identify the inventory of alternative sea manning initiatives an d experiments that the Navy has been exploring. We present the evidence regarding how these initiatives work in practice and their relative impact on Sailors in terms of such factors as professional training, turnaround ratios (TARs), and retention. We take a critical look at various initiatives in terms of cost feasibility, the availability of shore billets to support these new manning approaches, the expected impact on sea / shore rotation, and other potential costs and consequences. We collected information on altern ative sea manning initiatives and experiments from existing Navy documents, Navy-sponsored research, and other government reports. We also conducted a series of interviews with key informants in the following commands: the Strategic Planning and Analysis Directorate (N1Z) in the Office of Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Manpower and Personnel), the Enlisted Distribution Division (PERS-40), the Navy Manpower Analysis Center, the Surface Warfare Directorate (N76), Fleet Forces Command (FFC), Commander Naval Surface Forces Atlantic (CNSL), Commander Naval Surface Forces (CNSF), and the Center for Surface Combat Systems, Dahlgren, Virginia.

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Political Military Trends in Italy Greece and Spain

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These studies of the current geo-political climates in Greece, Italy, and Spain provide an important backdrop to a number of questions relevant to the study of U.S. Navy-host nation cooperation on AT-FP policies. That cooperation takes place within a context shaped by the host nations' security concerns and national politics and the developing security issues of the region. In addition, the overall atmosphere of US-European and US-host nation relations shape the extent to which the U.S. Navy can work with the host nation to craft an effective AT-FP policy for Navy shore establishments. If we are to provide realistic and useful conclusions and recommendation for the Navy's way ahead on this issue, then they must be grounded on a realistic and useful reading of the current state of political and military cooperation, as well as an accurate assessment of differing security interests and areas of possible friction in the future.

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Non Citizens in Today's Military

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In FY04, this country spent $2.7 billion to recruit 182,000 active-duty enlisted servicemembers. One overlooked source of military manpower is immigrants and their families. In fact, much of the growth in the recruitment-eligible population will come from immigration. The United States is a country of immigrants. Recent waves of immigration have made today’s foreign-born population the largest in U.S. history—11.7 percent in 2003, up from 9.3 percent in 1995. Immigrants will fuel much of the growth in the youth population. About a third of the world's population is under age 15, and the overwhelming majority lives in developing countries. Because this large bulge of future workers will have difficulty finding work in their native countries, many may emigrate—either alone or with young families. Of the 16 million foreign-born people who entered the United States between 1990 and 2002, almost a quarter were under age 21. Most immigrants will not be U.S. citizens, but many will become Legal Permanent Residents. Between 1973 and 2002, an estimated 21.5 million people became LPRs. In 2002, more than 1 million immigrants became LPRs in addition to 10.4 million people who were already LPRs. Over two-thirds of them, 7.8 million, had been in the United States long enough to be eligible for naturalization.

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Analysis of Hearing Loss in Navy

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Permanent hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities among sailors. Although noise-induced injury is preventable by limiting exposure, it is generally irreversible once it occurs. The problem of reduced hearing function in active military personnel has been documented in several studies. For example, using data from 1995 to 1999 Bonhker, Page, et. al. (2002) showed a Significant Threshold Shift2 (STS) as high 25% in some Navy Personnel Ratings. Wolge- muth and Kopke (2000) performed an unpublished pilot study exam- ining STS/Permanent Threshold Shift (PTS) incidence among crew members of the Navy aircraft carrier USS Constellation after a six month deployment and found that 12% of the crew members tested exhibited STS/PTS. Similar findings of hearing loss among military personnel are discussed in Gwin and Lacroix (1985) for submariners, Wolgemuth, K.S., Lutrell, et. al. (1995) for Navy personnel, Ridgley and Wilkins (1991) for both Army and Navy personnel, and Jan (2000) for Navy enlisted. In 2004 the Veterans Administration (VA) spent $108 Million dollars in disability payments to 15.8 thousand former Navy personnel for hearing loss. This represents an increase of $65 Million in spending by the VA on Navy hearing disability payments since 1999.

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Wargame-Creation Skills and the Wargame Construction Kit

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The Naval War College is developing an elective wargaming theory and practice course. This course is designed to elicit ideas for the advancement of the art and science of wargaming.

that address current operational problems. The NWC asked CNA to support their development of this course by analyzing the skills important for creating wargames, and comparing those skills