Toward a Consensus on Military Service

List of FiguresList of TablesForewordPrefaceMembers of the Working Group on Military ServiceAdditional Participants in the Regional American Assembly1 The Setting Challenges to United States Security Interests How Soviet Policy and Power Affect Us The Role of Manpower: Keeping the Peace in a Nuclear Age Differences of Attitudes and Policy Among the Allies National Security and American Society2 Military Manpower: The American Experience and the Enduring Debate Colonial Militia to San Juan Hill The First Modern Formulations: 1900-1919 Peace, Prosperity, and Depression The Debates of 1940 War Years Postwar Debates Cold War Vietnam, Draft Reform, and a Campaign Promise The Volume of Logic Selected Bibliography3 U.S. Security Requirements: Missions, Manpower, Readiness, Mobilization, and Projection of Forces Introduction Missions Missions and Manpower Readiness Manpower Mobilization Force Projection Conclusion4 The All-Volunteer Force: Status and Prospects of the Active Forces Introduction Origins of the All-Volunteer Force Performance of the All-Volunteer Force Perceptions and Prospects Appendix: Methodology for Calculating Revised Category IV Percentages5 The All-Volunteer Force Today: Mobilization Manpower Introduction Selected Reserves: Status and Prospects The Individual Ready Reserve: Status and Prospects Selective Service: Status and Prospects Balance Sheet and Projections6 Beyond the Marketplace: National Service and the AVF The All-Volunteer Force: Institution or Occupation? The Consequences of Occupational Military Manpower Policies The Effect of Occupational Policies on the Career Force Implications of Occupational Policies for Military Effectiveness The Context of Long-Term Organizational Adaptation Provisions of a GI Bill for the AVF Citizen-Soldier and Professional Soldier: Complementary Roles A Program for Civilian National Service7 Peacetime Voluntary Options Introduction Long-Term Trends Three Unresolved Issues Criteria for the Voluntary Option Analysis of Criteria Enlistment Options Specific Recommendations In Conclusion Appendix: The Effects of Shorter Active-Duty Terms of Service8 Obligatory Service: The Fundamental and Secondary Choices Introduction Triggers, Precepts, and Paradoxes Frailties of Universal Conscription The Modest Alternatives: A Draft for the Reserves Conscription for Active Military Service Terms of an Active-Duty Draft A GI Bill The Options and the Essential Objective9 Military Service in American Society The American "Tradition" The Contemporary Setting10 The Policy Paper: Toward A Consensus on Military Service, The Atlantic Council's Working Group on Military Service Introduction Defining Today's Security Requirements The All-Volunteer Experience The Options Conclusion: Findings and Recommendations Appendix I: Comments and Dissents Appendix II: TablesIndexAbout the Co-Chairmen and Rapporteur