Combat readiness

Combat readiness is a condition of the armed forces and their constituent units and formations, warships, aircraft, weapon systems or other military technology and equipment to perform during combat military operations,^[1] or functions consistent with the purpose for which they are organized or designed, or the managing of resources and personnel training in preparation for combat.^[2]

Different armed forces maintain different levels of readiness for the troops to engage in combat, varying from minutes to months; economic considerations are a major factor in explaining the variation.^[3]

• Alert crew
• Alert state
• COGCON
• DEFCON
• Mobilization
• Scrambling (military)
• List of established military terms

• Andrews, Robert P. & Shambo, James F., (thesis), A system dynamics analysis of the factors affecting combat readiness, Faculty of the School of Systems and Logistics of the Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Uhiversity, June 1980 [1]
• Jordan, Thomas M., Col. (US Army), Improving Combat Readiness: Developing and Implementing Effective Training, Infantry Magazine, Sept-Dec 2000 [2]
• Kruys, G.P.H., Combat readiness with specific reference to armies, (Chapter Five), Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, Institute for Strategic Studies 2001 [3]

• Pry, Peter Vincent, War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999 ISBN 0-275-96643-7
• Betts, Richard K., Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences, Brookings Institution Press, 1995 ISBN 0-8157-0905-6