America Goes to War: Managing the Force During Times of Stress and Uncertainty

Capa
Rand Corporation, 2007 - 97 páginas
Currently, with extended deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is having difficulties recruiting new non-prior-service personnel. Questions have been raised concerning the viability of the all-volunteer force and how the Department of Defense (DoD) can manage personnel during these times of stress and uncertainty. This report addresses these concerns, with particular attention to the history of conscription and volunteerism. It examines the history of the draft to try to understand when and under what conditions conscription has been used effectively to raise the manpower needed by the Army during wartime. The report also examines what other means besides conscription the Army could use to meet manpower demands. Specifically, what actions could be taken to increase the supply of volunteers or reduce the demand for new personnel? The report also looks at the man programs that have been developed to help military members and their families cope during difficult times, as well as the particular challengers of understanding which programs work.
 

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CHAPTER
3
The American Tradition
11
What History Tells Us
30
CHAPTER THREE
35
Reducing Demand by Transforming the Force
57
Family Program to Ameliorate the Most Negative Aspects
68
Deployments in the 1990s
74
Effectiveness of Military Family Support Programs
81
References
87

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