Table of Contents:
  • What Have We Done? A Summary of Then and Now (1960-2004)
  • The Coming of the All-Volunteer Force (1960-1968)
  • The Coming of the All-Volunteer Force: Analytic Studies (1960-1968)
  • The President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force
  • the Gates Commission
  • and Selective Service Reform (1969-1970)
  • The Studies of the All-Volunteer Armed Force (1969-1970)
  • The Pentagon's Response: The Laird and Kelley Years (1969-1972)
  • Analytic Studies During the Initial Transition Period (1969-1972)
  • Looking Toward the Future: A New Research Agenda (1969-1972)
  • The Second Inning (1973-1976)
  • The Second Inning: Analytic Studies (1973-1976)
  • The Carter Years: The All-Volunteer Force in Distress (1977-1980)
  • The Selective Service Sideshow (1979-1980)
  • The Carter Years: Analytic Studies (1977-1980)
  • Sustaining the All-Volunteer Force: The Reagan-Bush Years (1981-1992)
  • The Role of Women in the All-Volunteer Force
  • The Reagan-Bush Years: Analytic Studies (1981-1992)
  • Pax Americana and the New World Order: The Clinton and Bush Years (1992-2004)
  • Reaping What You Sow: Analytic Studies of the Clinton and Bush Years (1992-2004)
  • Why Has the All-Volunteer Force Been a Success?