Effective Use of Reserve Personnel in the U.S. Military: Lessons from the United Kingdom Reserve Model - Shima D. Keene - Bog

The U.S. Army and the British Army are undergoing
similar processes of rebalancing between regular
and reserve personnel. The British armed forces are
currently at a more advanced stage of this change than
the United States, and consequently there are useful
lessons to be drawn from their experience to date. This
is particularly the case in a time of growing defense
austerity; in addition to their smaller scale, the United
Kingdom's (UK) armed forces have great familiarity
with undertaking missions and maintaining close to
full-spectrum capability while subject to severe and
apparently insurmountable resource constraints.
Studying how this is made possible may also provide
valuable pointers for a U.S. defense force in an era of
sequestration and budget cuts.