Army - The New Modular Force

These extraordinary and dangerous times in the history of America demand an Army capable of dominating any adversary, anywhere, anytime. To meet this demand, the U.S. Army is changing—transforming while at war. It is changing to meet both current threats and future needs—becoming a campaign-quality Army with joint and expeditionary capabilities.

The Army modular force initiative—the major transformational effort—involves the total redesign of the operational Army into a larger, more powerful, more flexible and more rapidly deployable force while moving the Army from a division-centric structure to one built around a brigade combat team (BCT). BCTs are a stand-alone, self-sufficient and standardized tactical force of between 3,500 and 4,000 Soldiers that are organized by the way they fight.


The Army is also executing the most ambitious restructuring of its forces since World War II, transforming the Cold War Army to the type of versatile force required for the Global War on Terrorism and future threats. It is restructuring and rebalancing more than 100,000 positions in both the active and reserve component force structures. The Army is eliminating less-used force structure to resource additional infantry capabilities and high-demand units such as military police, transportation and civil affairs. The Army's senior leadership is investing in more active component combat support and combat service support capability for the first 30 days of an operation.