The Trail and the Rock by Nick Stockland
FM-1 describes the Global War on Terrorism as the first severe test of the all-volunteer Army. OPTEMPOs remain high and, in FY2005, all U.S. Army components failed to achieve their recruiting goals. Discussion of reinstating the draft has come to the forefront again. Conscription was used to man the U.S. Army during all major conflicts from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam Conflict. The draft was sustained through the Cold War to provide manpower for the peacetime Army committed to supporting the Truman Doctrine. The draft remained popular with the American public until the Vietnam Conflict. As the Vietnam Conflict dragged on, the draft became a target of partisan politics and antiwar protests. Richard Nixon won public support and the Presidency on his platform of discontinuing the draft. Shortly after his election, he formed the Gates Commission, whose purpose was to eliminate conscription. This thesis uses the Gates Commission report as a framework to analyze FY2005 data and formulates a conclusion on the utility and feasibility of a conscripted force. This thesis concludes that the draft is a reliable and predictable means of providing manpower for the Army, but is infeasible due to an increasing population and a shrinking Army.
Stockland, Nick: - Nick Stockland was born in 1989 in Fort Benning, Georgia. The product of a military family, Nick spent his early years constantly on the move. He has lived in Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas, Washington DC, and several years in Japan. Now settled in Austin, Texas, Nick is a young professional in the IT consulting industry. Nick writes in two genres - Children's books, with an affinity for combining family-friendly original stories with poetry in verse, and nature photography in narrative. He has three books published in 2019, four in 2020, and more to come.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780578658124 |
| ISBN 10 | 0578658127 |
| Title | The Trail and the Rock |
| Author | Nick Stockland |
| Series | Texas Nature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Author Nick Stockland |
| Year published | 2020-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 58 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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