National Service and the All-Volunteer Force
A Response to Hauser’s “Why America Should Restore the Draft”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7260712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Liebert (0000-0002-9086-0412, Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA, corresponding author), James Golby (Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 186-192 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Armed Forces & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0095327x17715245 |
| OpenAlex | W2689560558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
In “Midlife Crisis? The All-Volunteer Force at Forty,” we illustrated the regional and partisan imbalance in today’s all-volunteer force (AVF), and we argued that restoring the draft is neither an effective nor a practicable policy solution to this problem. In response, Colonel Hauser has argued for restoring the draft, substantially increasing the number of U.S. ground forces and reinvigorating Congressional foreign policy-making. In this article, we question the practicability of Colonel Hauser’s proposals, and we argue that a restored draft would not improve national character, facilitate sounder foreign policy decisions, or reduce costs relative to an AVF
Economics · Economy · Foreign policy · Political science · Politics · Service (business · Volunteer · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |