Toward a Consensus on Military Service: Report of the Atlantic Council's Working Group on Military Service

Andrew J. Goodpaster

ISBN 10: 1483129942 / ISBN 13: 9781483129945

Published by Pergamon, 2014

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344 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.78 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward a Consensus on Military Service: Report of the Atlantic Council's Working Group on Military Service
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483129942
• ISBN 13: 9781483129945
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.6 kilograms

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Synopsis

Toward a Consensus on Military Report of the Atlantic Council's Working Group on Military Service examines the experience and prospects of the U.S. peacetime military volunteer force. It presents a Policy Paper that offers a broad range of recommendations designed both to strengthen that force and to prepare the way, should circumstances require it, for a resumption of compulsory military service.
The book begins by providing a geopolitical backdrop for the issues of U.S. military service examined in subsequent chapters. It analyzes basic U.S. national interests, Soviet power and policy, and East-West relations. This is followed by separate chapters on the antecedents of force-manning in the U.S.; current and evolving concepts of U.S. security requirements; the all-volunteer force; and military manpower policies. Subsequent chapters examine long-term military manpower trends and criteria for a peacetime military force; compulsory service options; and social and ethical issues that have colored the historical American debate over how the nation should raise its armed forces in peacetime.