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Part-Time Soldiers - Reserve Readiness Challenges in Modern Military History
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Part-Time Soldiers - Reserve Readiness Challenges in Modern Military History
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In Part-Time Soldiers, Andrew Lewis Chadwick offers the first
in-depth historical study of the development and evolution of
modern army reserve forces. In doing so, he explores how a
confluence of military, political, and socio-economic developments
since the First World War has forced armies preparing for major war
to increase their dependence on reservists (part-time soldiers who
reinforce or augment professionals or conscripts in wartime) for
critical and routine military tasks. At the same time, he shows how
these developments placed tremendous stress on the industrial-era
reserve policies and structures that armies continue to use today.
For example, reservists training for less than thirty days a year
have struggled to keep up with the increasingly high-skilled
character of modern warfare, as evidenced by the poor performance
of reservists in the world wars and, most recently, the ongoing
Russia-Ukraine War.Chadwick primarily examines these developments
in the cases of the U.S. Army National Guard and the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) Army Reserve, given that unique geopolitical
conditions have forced the United States and Israel to frequently
employ reservists in combat over the past century. These cases,
which Chadwick explores using archival and secondary sources,
reveal how armies using two different reserve models—the former
built around volunteers and the latter around discharged
conscripts—have attempted to mitigate the challenge of
maintaining combat-ready reservists in the era of high-tech and
high-skilled warfare. By doing so, Chadwick identifies an enduring
and often overlooked problem facing contemporary defense
policymaking: how does one build and maintain effective army
reserve forces at an affordable cost without causing undue stress
on reservists’ civilian lives?
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Imprint: |
University Press of Kansas
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Andrew Lewis Chadwick
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7006-3587-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-7006-3587-4 |
Barcode: |
9780700635870 |
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