National Service: Can We Afford It?

Abstract

This thesis estimates the costs, implicit as well as explicit, of three National Service proposals. The three proposals examined were: 1) a completely voluntary system as presented by Donald Eberly, the Director of the National Service Secretariat; 2) a coercive-voluntary model developed by Richard Danzig and Peter Szanton in their book National Service: What Would it Mean?; and (3) a mandatory system similar to the military draft of the Vietnam War era. Costs included were: wages, medical benefits/coverage, GI Bill benefits, administrative costs, basic and specialized training costs, (i.e., opportunity) costs were included in Models Two and Three. Estimates were made only of the costs of the programs. The assessment of potential benefits from an untested program is even more problematic than the attempt to estimate economic costs and is beyond the scope of this thesis. Keywords: Theses; High costs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA188564

Entities

People

  • Douglas J. Debode

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Basic Training
  • California
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Governments
  • Military Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Vietnam War
  • War

Fields of Study

  • Education
  • Political science

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  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Naval Personnel Management