Mobility as Capability

Mobility as Capability
Author: Nikhila Menon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108836429

Provides valuable insights on the dynamics of women's mobility, autonomy and agency in India's informal labour market. It illustrates mixed methods research and challenges the current discourse on gender and paid work using Capability Approach.

Mobility as Capability

Mobility as Capability
Author: Nikhila Menon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108883508

This book highlights accounts of women workers to capture the domains of gendered mobility, which challenges the exalted status conferred on women in the Kerala model of development. It contests and deconstructs the development discourse which considers women's work mobility as an indicator of autonomy and agency using Capability Approach. The concept of 'transformational mobility' and its measurement introduced in the book advances the understanding of mobility, autonomy and agency and the intersectionality in the context of gender and work. Through an in-depth exploration of lived experiences of informal women workers the author illustrates how patriarchal structures are shaped and reinforced by work places, markets and the state. The central question is - can we steer development policies to facilitate collective capabilities for women where informal work arrangements are becoming the norm?

Mobility Capabilities

Mobility Capabilities
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-05-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719038546

Mobility Capabilities: DOD's Mobility Study Limitations and Newly Issued Strategic Guidance Raise Questions about Air Mobility Requirements

Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations

Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309307368

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. Accomplishing this mission rests on the ability of the Army to equip and move its forces to the battle and sustain them while they are engaged. Logistics provides the backbone for Army combat operations. Without fuel, ammunition, rations, and other supplies, the Army would grind to a halt. The U.S. military must be prepared to fight anywhere on the globe and, in an era of coalition warfare, to logistically support its allies. While aircraft can move large amounts of supplies, the vast majority must be carried on ocean going vessels and unloaded at ports that may be at a great distance from the battlefield. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown, the costs of convoying vast quantities of supplies is tallied not only in economic terms but also in terms of lives lost in the movement of the materiel. As the ability of potential enemies to interdict movement to the battlefield and interdict movements in the battlespace increases, the challenge of logistics grows even larger. No matter how the nature of battle develops, logistics will remain a key factor. Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations explores Army logistics in a global, complex environment that includes the increasing use of antiaccess and area-denial tactics and technologies by potential adversaries. This report describes new technologies and systems that would reduce the demand for logistics and meet the demand at the point of need, make maintenance more efficient, improve inter- and intratheater mobility, and improve near-real-time, in-transit visibility. Force Multiplying Technologies also explores options for the Army to operate with the other services and improve its support of Special Operations Forces. This report provides a logistics-centric research and development investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future.

Mobility Capability

Mobility Capability
Author: Tamara Kirsten Uhlenbroek Last
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2012
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN:

Defense Transportation Organization

Defense Transportation Organization
Author: Marshall E. Daniel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1979
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Strategic mobility is crucial to our capability to provide a credible conventional deterrent to infringements on our worldwide interests. It is the key to a major element of our defense policy -- the firm commitment to timely deployment of combat forces and suporting equipment to Europe to counter a Warsaw Pact threat against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The inability of planners to count on clear-cut and unambiguous indications of Warsaw Pact preparations for attack compound the already serious problems of resupply and reinforcement in the NATO arena. This is a discussion of our defense transportation system that current capabilities and organizations may not be sufficient to meet likely strategic deployment requirements for either long or short war senarios. Future conflicts may well involve an increase in the tempo of warfare, with resulting increases in the consumption of war-fighting materials, placing even greater demands on the transportation resources that make up the strategic mobility capability.