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This book examines the politics and individuals that have shaped
the military reform process in the U.S.This book traces the history
of various attempts to impose military reform on American armed
forces, especially from Congress, from the American Revolution and
Continental Congress to the present day. Particular focus will be
placed on the effort of a small group in Congress and the Pentagon
in the 1980s (who coined the term military reform in the modern
context). Emphasis will be on the reforms these actors advocated,
variously successful and unsuccessful, to fundamentally alter how
the Department of Defense designs and buys hardware and how U.S.
armed forces fight. The book uses the 1991 Gulf War, and the 2003
Iraq War (and the subsequent insurgency in Iraq) to demonstrate
what has been reformed in U.S. armed forces and the Department of
Defense, and what has not.The volume explains fundamental strengths
and weaknesses in America's military forces, exploring what genuine
military reform is, what it is not, and what remains to be done.
Ideas are presented to compare genuine reform to cosmetic dabbling,
which fundamentally improves nothing and which sometimes arrives as
ill-conceived fads that promise only to burden U.S. combat forces
to the point of mental and physical immobility.Part of the
Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series, this
is the only current reference book that allows readers to
understand the strengths and weaknesses in U.S. military forces.
Both authors served in the Pentagon and Congress, and provide
unique first-hand analysis regarding military reform.
In this authoritative handbook, a former Assistant Secretary of
Defense lays out the infrastructural, administrative, and health
care challenges facing the Veterans Administration, policymakers,
and our veterans themselves. Serving America's Veterans: A
Reference Handbook comes from an impeccable source-former Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations,
and Logistics Lawrence J. Korb. Korb and his team of experts
survey, analyze, and evaluate the infrastructural conditions,
administrative and health care service challenges, policies, and
politics affecting veterans affairs in the United States. They
overview the historical context of contemporary veterans affairs
and project the capabilities of the Veterans Administration to cope
with the needs of active, reserve, and retired veterans. Most
critically, they provide practical prescriptions and policy
recommendations to address veterans' many, pressing needs. The full
spectrum of veterans issues is examined: changing personnel
policies in the armed forces; unprecedented levels of National
Guard and Reserve mobilization; societal reintegration and funding
adequacy when the professional military is a relatively small
fraction of the U.S. electorate; rising costs of medical
technology; and the growing proportion of veterans with conditions
requiring protracted rehabilitation or lifelong intensive care.
Timeline Appendixes Glossary Annotated Bibliography
By reference to the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of
America's armed forces, Wheeler and Korb establish a definition of
what genuine military reform is and is not, and identify what
"really" needs to be done to transform our military. They compare
genuine reform with "cosmetic dabbling"--that improves nothing and
often burdens US combat forces to the point of mental and physical
immobility.
They focus particularly on the reforms advocated by a small group
in Congress and the Pentagon in the 1980s, revealing how these
reforms have fundamentally altered the ways in which the Department
of Defense designs and buys hardware, and how our armed forces
fight. The book uses Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom--and
the subsequent insurgency in Iraq--to demonstrate what has been
reformed in the US armed forces and the Department of Defense, and
what has not.
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