Determining the Military Value of Army Installations During Base Realignment and Closure

<p>Large portions of recent Army budgets have been allocated for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) including more than two billion dollars from 1989 to 1995. These allocations have been made in anticipation of savings in annual operating costs including an estimated $480 million per year for the BRAC 1995 recommendations alone. These overall savings are critical to a future smaller modernized more efficient Army. BRAC economics and decision making are a very complex process encompassing financial military and political considerations. This thesis provides an analysis of how the Army's 1995 determination of military value was performed and how it contributed to the BRAC process. For historical reference it also provides a detailed description of the 1995 process and how that process differed from some of the previous rounds. The analysis provides a critical review with recommendations that will improve the process for future Army BRAC decisions.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>