Europe Without Soldiers?: Recruitment and Retention Across the Armed Forces of Europevolume 146

ISBN-13: 9781553392460 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

Tibor Szvircsev Tresch; Christian Leuprecht

Opis

European armed forces are confronted with increasing recruitment and retention challenges as governments shift from compulsory service to all-volunteer forces, unprecedented population aging notwithstanding. This volume compares human-resource developments in both old and new NATO members as well as unaligned countries, including Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries' collective contribution to international stability is not to be underestimated: combined, they field about as many active military personnel as the United States.