Joint Mobilization Planning: 22 March 2010

Publisher Marketing: Mobilization includes assembling and organizing personnel and materiel for active duty military forces, activating the Reserve Component (RC) (including federalizing the National Guard), extending terms of service, surging and mobilizing the industrial base and training bases, and bringing the Armed Forces of the United States to a state of readiness for war or other national emergency. There are two implied processes: The military mobilization process and the national mobilization process. The National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and the National Military Strategy detail national objectives and interests. Implicit is the need to maintain and improve a capability to rapidly and efficiently mobilize forces and resources to respond to threats across the range of military operations. This publication provides fundamental principles and guidance for the planning and conduct of joint military mobilization and demobilization, as well as some additional methods of force expansion, including use of volunteers and Presidential Reserve Call-up. It also provides the context for joint participation in the planning and programming activities undertaken within the DOD, especially those activities aimed at the reconstitution of military capability to deter any future threat to national security.