All-Volunteer Force: Thirty Years of Service

ISBN-13: 9781574889208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 396 str.

Barbara A. Bicksler; Curtis Gilroy; John T. Warner

Opis

Throughout most of the twentieth century, American military personnel were drafted into service. A conscripted force served the nation in both world wars, Korea, and Vietnam. But in the late 1960s, the draft came under intense scrutiny and was viewed by the American public with growing dissatisfaction and a sense of inequity. The mounting unease over the draft prompted President Richard Nixon to establish a special commission - The President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, also known as the Gates Commission - to study the alternatives. After much debate within the Administration and Congress over the feasibility and affordability of a volunteer military, the draft was abolished, and on July 1, 1973, the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) was born. It was perhaps the most important transformation of the U.S. military in the past century.