Combat readiness

Royal Canadian Air Force alert crew at Zweibrücken Air Base in West Germany waiting to scramble in 1957

Combat readiness is a condition of the armed forces and their constituent units and formations, warships, aircraft, weapon systems or other military technology and equipment to perform during combat military operations,^[1] or functions consistent with the purpose for which they are organized or designed, or the managing of resources and personnel training in preparation for combat.^[2]

Three United States Armed Forces rear and non-combat personnel—a U.S. Army military construction supervisor, a U.S. Air Force cyber transport technician, and a U.S. Navy cook—during combat training to ensure combat readiness, in 2014

Different armed forces maintain different levels of readiness for the troops to engage in combat, varying from minutes to months; economic considerations are a major factor in explaining the variation.^[3]

References

^ Kruys, Archived from the original on November 9, 2010, on the Wayback Machine.
^ Andrews & Shambo, p. 2
^ Jordan, pp. 2–3

Citations

Andrews, Robert P. & Shambo, James F., (thesis), A system dynamics analysis of the factors affecting combat readiness, Faculty of the School of Systems and Logistics of the Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Uhiversity, June 1980 [1]
Jordan, Thomas M., Col. (US Army), Improving Combat Readiness: Developing and Implementing Effective Training, Infantry Magazine, Sept-Dec 2000 [2]
Kruys, G.P.H., Combat readiness with specific reference to armies, (Chapter Five), Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, Institute for Strategic Studies 2001 [3]

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