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Changing U.S. Military Manpower Realities

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The Changing World of the American Military, edited by Franklin D. Margiotta

War, Morality, and the Military Profession, edited by Malham M. Wakin

New Technology and Military Power: General Purpose Military Forces for the 1980s and Beyond, Seymour J. Deitchman

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Westview Special Studies in Military Affairs

Changing U.S. Military Manpower Realities

edited by Franklin D, Margiotta,
James Brown, and Michael J. Collins

Manpowerqualified, experienced, and in adequate supplyis considered by many to be the keystone of the U.S. capability to deter or wage war. But can the all-volunteer force (AVF) continue to attract and retain the quantity and quality of active and reserve forces required to meet the security needs of the nation?

The contributors to this collection of original articlesrepresenting the diverse views of civilian, government, and military scholarsanalyze the political and sociological dimensions of the AVF and present recent research on major manpower issues, including recruitment problems, the military family, the role of women, racial problems, economic concerns, and the concept of the citizen-soldier. The authors also examine the demands and problems the AVF will face in the coming years. Contending that the AVF system is not working and will not work in its present form, they suggest for debate, questioning, and reinterpretationnew directions for change.

Franklin D. Margiotta (Col., USAF) is director of research at the National Defense University and director of the National Security Affairs Institute. He edited and contributed to The Changing World of the American Military (Westview, 1978). James Brown is professor of political science at Southern Methodist University and associate chairman of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. His articles on national security policy and other subjects in military affairs have appeared in Armed Forces and Society, the International Journal of Public Administration, and Polity. Michael J. Collins (Lt. Col., USAF) is chief of the National Security Affairs Division of the Air Command and Staff College. He has written on national security affairs and is coeditor of Military Ethics and Professionalism in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century.

Changing U.S. Military Manpower Realities

edited by Franklin D. Margiotta, James Brown, and Michael J. Collins

First published 1983 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Changing U.S. military manpower realities.
(Westview special studies in military affairs)
1. ManpowerUnited StatesAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. United StatesArmed
ForcesRecruiting, enlistment, etc.Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Margiotta, Franklin
D. II. Brown, James, 1934 May 1- . III. Collins, Michael J., 1931- . IV. Title:
Changing US military manpower realities. V. Series.
UA17.5.U5C45 1983 355.2'2'0973 82-13372

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-02200-6 (hbk)

To
Major Arthur L. Moxon, one of our authors,
killed during a training mission at
Donna Nook Bombing Range, Lincolnshire,
England, January 9, 1981
May his flight be high

Contents

, Sam Nunn and Robin Beard

, Franklin D. Margiotta, James Brown, and Michael J. Collins

, Franklin D. Margiotta

Arthur L. Moxon

, Kenneth J. Coffey

, Travis E. Harrell and Robert L. Rhame

, David R. Segal, John D. Blair, Joseph J. Lengermann, and Richard C. Thompson

, Richard C. Thompson, and David R. Segal

, Robert W Caldwell, Jr., David Hale, Frank J. Kane III, and Patricia Dallenbach

, Anne Hoiberg

, Edna J. Hunter

, Richard J. Brown III, Richard Carr, and Dennis K. Orthner

, Sabra Woolley

, Morris Janowitz

1. ii

Guide

At first glance, it might seem unusual for a Democratic senator and a Republican congressman to coauthor the foreword of a book. However, both of us have long been concerned about U.S. military manpower policies and about trends within the all-volunteer force. Before it became fashionable to express concern about defense manpower, we sometimes felt very lonely in even raising the issue.

We do not totally agree with each other (or with the authors) on all of the problems or the potential solutions, but we are both certain that our democratic system needs informed, nonpartisan public dialogue to facilitate rational policy choices. We thus agreed to introduce this volume, which further explores some hitherto underresearched issues concerning U.S. military manpower.

This book is another important cumulation of research stimulated by the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS). This unique organization has systematically encouraged independent thinkers to examine the military and society so that we might better understand developments within the military services. Over the years, we and our staffs have consulted the objective analyses developed by IUS scholars, and we have been informed by their testimony in committee hearings. We have both been pleased to be invited to speak at IUS gatherings, one of which resulted in this volume.

We encourage you to read this book, assess its research, and draw your own conclusions. Through this and similar efforts we hope to contribute to the important debate on U.S. military manpower that surely must continue.

Sam Nunn
U.S. Senator

Robin Beard
U.S. Congressman

Few intellectual enterprises are the product of a single scholar. This volume is representative of the efforts of many authors who contributed the results of their research and experience. Without exception, the papers are a mixture of basic and applied research.

It is difficult to assemble a collection of original essays on a specific topic without the coordinating effort of a colloquium, panel, or convention session. The genesis of this volume was a conference held at the Air University's Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, at which forty papers were presented. This volume was built on the basis of those papers.

The editors would like to thank, in particular, Professor Morris Janowitz, University of Chicago, for the support, assistance, and intellectual guidance that made this volume possible. In 1976, Professor Janowitz had the foresight to hold the first Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society on a military installation. The event was repeated in 1979, when the conference entitled "Changing Military Manpower Realities in the 1980s" was held at Maxwell Air Force Base.

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