The All-Volunteer Military: Issues and Performance

Abstract

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have required substantial increases in the number of U.S. service members deployed and the frequency with which units are sent overseas. Through December 2006, over 1 million active-duty personnel and 400,000 reserve personnel had been deployed to those theaters. To maintain the forces necessary to conduct those operations, the military must be able to recruit significant numbers of volunteers in fiscal year 2006, its target was almost 200,000 active-duty recruits. However, all three components of the Army (the active Army, the Army National Guard, and the Army Reserve) have had trouble achieving their recruiting goals in one or more recent years, although they were able to meet or nearly meet their targets for 2006. Those deployments and recruiting problems have raised the following concerns among decisionmakers, military analysts, and other observers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA474736

Entities

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Personnel
  • Basic Training
  • Business Administration
  • Civil War
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Health Care
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Minority Groups
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Strategic Security Studies