This monograph identifies areas where the U.S. Army and other services can potentially benefit from examining the United Kingdom's comparable program of reserve reform. Key areas where aspects of this reform have been entirely counterproductive are identified, as well as specific and expensive recent British mistakes which are essential for the U.S. military to avoid. The aim of this monograph is to highlight the lessons learned by the U.K. Reserve Forces, both in terms of successes and challenges, as well as to explore the feasibility of achieving the proposals set out by Future Reserves 2020. This may be useful for the United States moving forward, as the need to cut defense spending further is likely, and the U.K. may serve as a good model for operating with a smaller budget.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

SHIMA D. KEENE is a Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre, Oxford, the United Kingdom (UK), as well as Director of the Security Economics Programme at the Institute for Statecraft, London. She is also a Deployable Civilian Expert (DCE)1 and a member of the UK Civilian Stabilisation Group (CSG)2 specializing in Intelligence and Security Sector Reform. She is a former Senior Research Fellow and Advisor at the Advanced Research and Assessment Group, Defence Academy of the UK, and Special Advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), where she had responsibility for assessment and recommendations for the development of financial counterinsurgency strategies in Afghanistan. Dr. Keene advises and works closely with a number of British and international organizations on a number of topics relating to national and international security including the MoD, various UK government departments and law enforcement agencies, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe, the Council of Europe, Global Futures Forum, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. Government departments and law enforcement agencies, and various global private sector organizations. Dr. Shima has 25 years of practitioner experience in a number of industries to include finance, defense, security, and telecommunications in both the public and private sectors, with government departments, law enforcement, telecommunications, and finance. She is also a former British Army reservist soldier with 7 years military service, most of which was spent serving as the Company Medic and Physical Training Instructor for the 4th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment. Dr. Keene has published numerous internal/external MoD and NATO reports as well as award-winning academic journal articles, and is the author of Threat Finance: Disconnecting the Lifeline of Organized Crime and Terrorism. Dr. Shima holds an M.Phil. in defence and security studies and graduated with honors in Business Studies, and a Ph.D. in international criminal law.