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Landpower: MOBILIZATION

Landpower is the ability—by threat, force, or occupation—to gain, sustain, and exploit control over land, resources, and people.

INTRODUCTION

"Army mobilization is the process of bringing the Army to a state of readiness for war, contingency, or national emergency." AR 500-5, Army Mobilization.

ARTICLES

"The Army We Need; The Army We Can Have"
by Allen Batschelet, Rick Ayer, and Mike Runey
Army 64, no. 2 (February 2014): 30-32.
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"The Army's Mobilization Problem"
by Joseph Whitlock
War Room, October 13, 2017.
"Long Wars and Industrial Mobilization: It Won’t Be World War II Again"
by Mark Cancian
War on the Rocks, August 8, 2017.
"Mobilization: The Army's Achilles' Heel"
by Christopher Petty
War on the Rocks, April 18, 2017.
"Mobilization: The State of the Field"
by Ken S. Gilliam and Barrett K. Parker
Parameters 47, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 95-101.
"Mobilizing for Major War"
by Chad Olen Bridges and Andrée Navarro Parameters 47, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 87-93.
"Tactical Leader essons Learned in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom VIII: Pre-Deployment Training"
by William B. Ostlund
Military Review 89, no. 4 (July-August 2009): 2-9.

BOOKS

Active Component Responsibility in Reserve Component Pre- and Postmobilization Training by Ellen M. Pint, Matthew W. Lewis, and Thomas F. Lippiatt
ISBN: 9780833087836
(Santa Monica: RAND, 2015)
The Army and Economic Mobilization by Ralph Elberton Smith
Call Number: Ridgway Hall D769 .A533 v.4 pt.5
(Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1991)
An Oral History of Mobilization Planning: Interview with Mr. Walter Brown and Judge Donald Russell by Walter J. Brown, Donald Russell; interviewed by Richard Miks
Call Number: Ridgway Hall U53.2 .B76 2017
(Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army Military History Institute, 2017)
Recruiting Older Youths by Jacob Alex Klerman, Bernard D. Rostker, and Megan Zander-Cotugno
Call Number: Root Hall UB323 .R672 2014
ISBN: 9780833083906
(Santa Monica RAND, 2014)
Recruiting Strategies to Support the Army's All-Volunteer Force by Bruce R. Orvis, et al.
ISBN: 9780833092236
(Santa Monica: RAND, 2017)
Riding the Hydra: How the Army Enterprise Went to War, 2001-2007 by Conrad C. Crane, Michael E. Lynch, and Shane P. Reilley
(Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Historical Services Division, 2017)
Searching for Information Online: Using Big Data to Identify the Concerns of Potential Army Recruits by Salar Jahedi, Jennie W. Wenger, and Douglas Yeung
ISBN: 9780833094148
(Santa Monica: RAND, 2016)

Army Mobilization and Deployment Reference (AMDR)
(Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Army, Headquarters G-1, November 1, 2017)

DISSERTATIONS & THESES

The Army Industrial College and Mobilization Planning Between the Wars
by Joanne E. Johnson
National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1993.
Assessing Recruitment and Retention at Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Programs: A Case Study of Winston Salem State University
by John Drakeford
Northcentral University, January 2015.
Building the Human Domain Multi-Tool: Recruiting for Special Forces
by Frederick Charles Dummar
Call Number: Root Hall AD-A589 408
U.S. Army War College, March 2013.
A Case Study of the United States Army Recruiting Process
by Jessica D. Cortez
Capella University, January 2014.
Recruiting Best Practices in Prospecting: Developing the Skills Necessary to Recruit and All-Volunteer Army: A Delphi Study
by Jeremy E. McMullen
Chapman University, February 13, 2016.
Recruitment, Development, and Retention of U.S. Army Acquisition Professionals Offsetting Personnel Shortages
by Toye Y. Latimore
Walden University, April 2014.
We Want You: It Takes a Village to Market the Army
by Daniel C. Hodne
Call Number: Root Hall AD-A589 335
U.S. Army War College, March 2013.

WEBSITES

Defense Logistics Agency (Fort Belvoir, VA).
As the Department of Defense's logistics combat support agency, DLA provides worldwide logistics support in both peacetime and wartime to the military services as well as several civilian agencies and foreign countries.
U.S. Army Sustainment Command (Rock Island Arsenal, IL)
ASC provides sustainment-level logistics by synchronizing Acquisition, Logistics and Technology support from strategic through operational - to the tactical level. Serves as Army Materiel Command's single face to the field. facilitates reach back across AMC to enhance mission support. Supports Army, Joint and Coalition forces across the full spectrum of operations. Manages Army Prepositioned Stocks and as the CONUS TSC, provides materiel management capabilities.