National Guard and Reserves Resource Guide
Compiled by
the Pentagon Library
Office of the Secretary of Defense Historians
National Guard Bureau Librarian and Historian
September 2005

Table of Contents

Reports

    Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports

• Military Retirement: Major Legislative Issues (Open CRS Network)
• The Military Survivor Benefit Plan: A Description of Its Provisions (Open CRS Network)
• U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress (Open CRS Network)
• Recruiting and Retention: An Overview of FY2004 and FY2005 Results for Active and Reserve Component  Enlisted Personnel (Updated June 30, 2005)
• Military Pay and Benefits:  Key Questions and Answers Updated (June 15, 2005)
• U.S. Army's Modular Redesign: Issues for Congress (Updated May 20, 2005)
• Defense Transformation: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress (Updated April 4, 2005)
• Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Issues of U.S. Military Involvement (Updated June 15, 2005)

• Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom: Questions and Answers About U.S. Military Personnel, Compensation, and Force Structure (Updated February 16, 2005)

• Military Forces: What Is the Appropriate Size for the United States? (Updated February 10, 2005)

• U.S. Military Operations in the Global War on Terrorism: Afghanistan, Africa, the Philippines, and Colombia (February 4, 2005)

• Air Force Transformation (Updated January 25, 2005)

    Rand Reports

• Army Forces for Sustained Operations 2005

• Stretched Thin : Army Forces for Sustained Operations 2005

• Past and Future: Insights for Reserve Component Use 2004

• Breaking the Mold: A New Paradigm for the Reserve Components 2000

• Training Requirements and Training Delivery in the Total Army School System 1999

• Principles for Determining the Air Force Active/Reserve Mix 1999

• Consolidating Active and Reserve Component Training Infrastructure 1999

• Resources, Costs, and Efficiency of Training in the Total Army School System 1997

• Assessing the Potential for Using Reserves in Operations Other Than War 1997

• Assessing the Performance of the Army Reserve Components School System 1996

• Total Force Pilot Requirements and Management 1995

• Active and Reserve Force Attrition and Retention: A Selected Review of Research and Methods 1985

   Think Tank Reports

       Homeland Security

• Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.  The Reserves and Homeland Security: Proposals, Progress, Problems Ahead by James Jay Carafano, June 19, 2002.
• Heritage Foundation.  The National Guard and Homeland Security by Jack Spencer, July 29, 2002.
• John F. Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Harvard University.  A Changing of the Guard: the U.S. National Guard and Homeland Defense by Jay Smith, May 2003.

       Roles and Missions

• Center for Strategic and International Studies.  The Role of the National Guard and Reserves in the Total Force by Christine E. Wormuth and David McGinnis.      
• Foreign Policy Research Institute.  The Future of the Guard and Reserve: Roles, Missions and Force Structure by Frank G. Hoffman, February 8, 2005.
• Foreign Policy Research Institute.  The Future of the Reserves and the National Guard: A Conference Report by Michael P. Noonan, January 19, 2005.
• Foreign Policy Research Institute.  Total Force Policy and the Abrams Doctrine: Unfulfilled Promise, Uncertain Future by James Jay Carafano.  February 3, 2005.
• Foreign Policy Research Institute.  A "War of a Different Kind" and the Reconstruction of U.S. Reserve Forces  by Stephen M. Duncan.  December 6, 2004.
• Heritage Foundation.  The Army Reserves and the Abrams Doctrine: Unfulfilled Promise, Uncertain Future by James Jay Carafano, April 18, 2005.
• Heritage Foundation.  Base Realignment and Closure: National Guard and Regional Implications by Jack Spencer and Kathy Gudgel.  May 23, 2005.

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