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9780262572354

Service to Country

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    9780262572354

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    0262572354

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-04-01
  • Publisher: Mit Pr
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Summary

Motivated, able, and well-trained military personnel are essential to the success of any military, and personnel policies are crucial to getting and keeping qualified servicemen and women. The transformation of personnel policies is an important element of the broader transformation occurring in Western militaries. Across Europe and North America, nations are embracing plans to change military personnel policies to build future capabilities consistent with new strategic environments and with the demographic and societal realities of the future. For many nations, a key reform is to shift from a conscript military to a smaller, all-volunteer force. Other important reforms include expanding recruitment capacity, improving working conditions, revamping career paths, overhauling compensation systems and increasing military pay, modernizing pension plans, improving the quality of life for military members and their families, and improving the post-service prospects for those who serve. Service to Countryexplores the ongoing transformation of military personnel policies in Europe and North America, looking at causes as well as potential costs and benefits of personnel policy transformation. Contributors to the volume, from both Europe and North America, include experts from militaries, governments, universities, and think tanks; practitioners and scholars; economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a demographer. Contributors: Jennifer Buck, Deborah Clay-Mendez, Sylvain Daffix, Chris Donnelly, Curtis Gilroy, Keith Hartley, Hannu Herranen, Bertel Heurlin, Jolyon Howorth, Gerhard Kümmel, Juan Lopez Diaz, Karen McKenney, Mihaela Matei, Vincent Medina, Sebastian Negrusa, Cyr-Denis Nidier, Bernard Rostker, Robert St. Onge, Rickard Sandell, Peter Šveç, Vaidotas Urbelis, Domenico Villani, John Warner, Cindy Williams, John D. Winkler

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
The Changing Environment
The Transformation of European Military Capability, 1989-2005p. 37
Coping with Demography in NATO Europe: Military Recruitment in Times of Population Declinep. 65
Impact of NATO Membership on Military Service in the Baltic Statesp. 97
The Choice of Personnel Model
The Economic Case for All-Volunteer Forcesp. 123
The New Danish Model: Limited Conscription and Deployable Professionalsp. 157
General Conscription and Wartime Reserve in Finlandp. 179
An All-Volunteer Force in Disguise: On the Transformation of the Armed Forces in Germanyp. 203
The Transition to All-Volunteer Forces
The Transition to an All-Volunteer Force: The U.S. Experiencep. 233
Cash and In-kind Compensation Policies for a Volunteer Forcep. 263
The British Experience with an All-Volunteer Forcep. 287
Transition to an All-Volunteer Force: The French Experiencep. 313
The All-Volunteer Spanish Armed Forcesp. 331
Romania's Transition to an All-Volunteer Force: Managerial Challenges and Opportunitiesp. 355
Recruitment in a Period of Transformation: The Italian Experiencep. 381
Transforming Reserve Policies
Sustaining an Effective Reserve: Implications of the New Security Environment for Reserve Forcesp. 397
Transformation of the Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forcesp. 413
Strategic Trends for Reserves in Small European Countries: The Example of Slovakiap. 437
Conclusion
The Way Ahead: Transformation of Personnel Policiesp. 459
About the Authorsp. 477
Indexp. 485
About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairsp. 503
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