General Odierno’s AUSA Winter Symposium speech best illustrates the concept and process of determining organizational authorization because of factors in the operational environment that necessitate large scale organizational authorization, primarily budgetary constraints, reduction in end strength, and capabilities needed to support combatant commanders to win our wars. General Odierno identifies the desired unit type, a third maneuver battalion and some more engineers, that enters into the resourcing phase of force development, during which the organizational model competes for resources in the Total Army Analysis process.
Through the process of Total Army analysis in the fourth phase of the force development process, determine organizational
