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Author | : Bernard D. Rostker |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2006-09-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0833040685 |
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As U.S. military forces appear overcommitted and some ponder a possible return to the draft, the timing is ideal for a review of how the American military transformed itself over the past five decades, from a poorly disciplined force of conscripts and draft-motivated "volunteers" to a force of professionals revered throughout the world. Starting in the early 1960s, this account runs through the current war in Iraq, with alternating chapters on the history of the all-volunteer force and the analytic background that supported decisionmaking. The author participated as an analyst and government policymaker in many of the events covered in this book. His insider status and access offer a behind-the-scenes look at decisionmaking within the Pentagon and White House. The book includes a foreword by former Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. The accompanying DVD contains more than 1,700 primary-source documents-government memoranda, Presidential memos and letters, staff papers, and reports-linked directly from citations in the electronic version of the book. This unique technology presents a treasure trove of materials for specialists, researchers, and students of military history, public administration, and government affairs to draw upon.
Author | : Beth Bailey |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674053524 |
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In 1973, not long after the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, President Nixon fulfilled his campaign promise and ended the draft. No longer would young men find their futures determined by the selective service system; nor would the U.S. military have a guaranteed source of recruits. America’s Army is the story of the all-volunteer force, from the draft protests and policy proposals of the 1960s through the Iraq War. It is also a history of America in the post-Vietnam era. In the Army, America directly confronted the legacies of civil rights and black power, the women’s movement, and gay rights. The volunteer force raised questions about the meaning of citizenship and the rights and obligations it carries; about whether liberty or equality is the more central American value; what role the military should play in American society not only in time of war, but in time of peace. And as the Army tried to create a volunteer force that could respond effectively to complex international situations, it had to compete with other “employers” in a national labor market and sell military service alongside soap and soft drinks. Based on exhaustive archival research, as well as interviews with Army officers and recruiters, advertising executives, and policy makers, America’s Army confronts the political, moral, and social issues a volunteer force raises for a democratic society as well as for the defense of our nation.
Author | : Hugh Cunningham |
Publisher | : Routledge Revivals |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2020-09-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367233273 |
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Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion. It survived and grew for fifty years until in 1908 it was renamed and remodelled as the Territorial Force. Composed initially of middle-class and often middle-aged gentlemen who elected their own officers and paid for their own equipment, the Volunteer Force soon became youthful and working-class, with appointed middle-class officers, a Government subsidy, and a minor military role as an adjunct to the Regular Army. This book examines the origins of the Force, the transformation in its social composition, the difficulties in finding officers who were 'gentlemen', the ambiguous status, of the Force both in the local community and in the Regular Army, and the political influence which the Force exerted in the early twentieth century. Above all it is concerned with the reasons for and the implications of enrolment; publicists argued that the Force was the embodiment of patriotism, and an indication of working-class loyalty to established institutions.
Author | : Barbara A. Bicksler |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Can America continue to maintain its military commitments without conscription?
Author | : Robert K. Griffith |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 1999-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0788178644 |
Download The U. S. Army's Transition to the All-Volunteer Force (1968-1974) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The all-volunteer force, the historic norm in peacetime America, was reestablished in the U.S. on 30 June 1973, when induction authority expired. But never before had the U.S. attempted to field a standing Army in peacetime -- based on voluntary enlistments -- with the worldwide responsibilities that faced this force. Since the mid-1980s the ability of the armed forces to recruit and retain quality volunteers has not been seriously questioned. This book takes us through those years of transition, examining both the context in which the end of the draft occurred and the perspective which the Army's leaders brought to bear on the challenge they faced.
Author | : Sir James Moncrieff Grierson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh W. Blackwood 1909. |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Includes 47 coloured plates of uniforms.
Author | : Timothy Bowman |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526129566 |
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The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was established in January 1913, as a militant expression of Ulster Unionist opposition to the Third Home Rule Bill. Academic historians have tended to overlook Ulster Loyalism. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the UVF in this period, considering in detail the composition of the officer corps, the marked regional recruiting differences, the ideologies involved, the arming and equipping of the UVF and the contingency plans made by UVF Headquarters in the event of Home Rule being imposed on Ulster. Using previously neglected sources, it demonstrates that the UVF was better armed and less well-trained, with the involvement of fewer British army officers than previous historians have allowed, and suggests that the UVF was quite capable of seizing control of Ulster and installing the Ulster Provisional Government in the event of Home Rule being implemented in 1914. This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader interested in modern paramilitary forces.
Author | : United States. Adjutant-General's Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Download Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 ...: Territories of Washington, New Mexico, Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota; Veteran reserve corps, U.S. veteran volunteers (First army corps), U.S. volunteers, U.S. colored troops Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Great Britain. Army. Volunteers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Sar A. Levitan |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1977-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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