This monograph places the Army's 2011 campaign of learning about
the Army as profession after a decade of war into the context of
the just-initiated Department of Defense (DoD) reductions. The
exact shape of those reductions and the defense strategy our
down-sized land forces are to execute in the future are only now
becoming clear as this monograph goes to press in early 2012. But
what is already clear is that the U.S. Army will undergo a severely
resource-con-strained transition to a significantly smaller force
than it sustained during the past decade of war. As with the
post-Cold War downsizing during the Bill Clinton administration in
the late 1990s, one critical challenge for the Army centers on the
qualitative and institutional character of the Army after the
reductions. Will the Army manifest the essential characteristics
and behavior of a military profession comprised of Soldiers and
civilians who see themselves sacrificially called to vocation? Will
the Army perceive its service to country within a motivating
professional culture that sustains a meritocratic ethic, or will
the Army's character be more like any other government occupation
in which its members view themselves as filling a job, motivated
mostly by the extrinsic factors of pay, location, and work hours?
Strategic Studies Institute.
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