Military transformation under relative peacetime conditions presents a challenging dilemma: the conundrum of military readiness and modernization. Relative peacetime brings additional challenges to decision-makers on whether to focus our constrained resources on modernization or on readiness. To best navigate this conundrum, the Army must develop effective models that will also ascertain the long-term economic implications of funding readiness versus funding modernization. These models will provide critical data to better inform decision-makers on the long-term economic ramifications of weighting resources more heavily in the direction of readiness or of modernization.
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