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A 'Hollow Army' Reappraised - President Carter, Defense Budgets, and the Politics of Military Readiness (Paperback)
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A 'Hollow Army' Reappraised - President Carter, Defense Budgets, and the Politics of Military Readiness (Paperback)
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For more than 3 decades, the term "hollow army" or the more
expansive idiom, "hollow force," has represented President Carter's
alleged willingness to allow American military capability to
deteriorate in the face of growing Soviet capability. The phrase
continues to resonate today. In this current period of declining
defense resources, the President of the United States, the
Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
have articulated how the newly released strategic guidance and
budget priorities signify a concerted effort not to "hollow out"
U.S. forces. They have affirmed their dedication to preventing the
recreation of the ragged military and disastrous deterioration in
defense capability the Carter administration allowed to occur.
However, it is also time to reexamine the term "hollow army" and
its meaning as the inevitable tug of war over defense spending gets
underway. This Paper places the "hollow army" metaphor within its
historical context: barely 5 years after the United States finally
disengaged from a major war (Vietnam), a struggling economy, and an
election year in which a President was not only tenuously leading
in the polls, but also confronted substantial opposition from
elements of his own political party. Over the years, a specific
political reading of these events has taken hold. It is the purpose
of this Paper to re-read the historical events, and in doing so,
come to a better understanding of the domestic political and
geostrategic environment during Carter's presidency, the U.S. Cold
War strategy, and the assertions made concerning the readiness of
the U.S. Army to perform its missions.
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