Considering the history of slow community recoveries and disjointed expansions in past base closure rounds, together with the well-documented struggles with conflicting government entities – even before dealing with the security- and secrecy-driven Department of Defense – a comprehensive strategy for success, and avoiding past BRAC redevelopment mistakes, is critical to achieving reuse goals and guaranteeing financial success.
   This strategy must encompass a specific blueprint for dealing with the many related redevelopment issues arising from any closed, open or expanding facility, and simultaneously integrate proactive solutions acceptable to DoD (within its operational and regulatory scheme) as well as other, often-conflicting governmental entities. Properly implemented in concert with DoD procedures and operational goals, such a strategy will avoid repetition of the many mistakes which burdened, prevented or crippled recent closures and realignments – mistakes that ultimately perpetuated many facilities' unproductive status.
   Even today, unused and underused but valuable property remains available for private and public sector reuse from the four base closure rounds in the 1990s. According to the Government Accounting Office, as of the date of the BRAC 2005 report, 28 percent of the closed base acreage from the four previous Base Closure rounds – 10 to 17 years after their BRAC decisions – remain DoD property, and not the property of the expected private sector or local government redevelopment authority. In sum, this means that one out of every four BRAC acres intended for permanent community reuse and economic revitalization continues to sit almost fallow, a financial albatross on both the local community and DoD.