Service to country : personnel policy and the transformation of Western militaries / Curtis L. Gilroy and Cindy Williams, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilroy, Curtis L.

Williams, Cindy.

Series:

BCSIA studies in international security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military administration.

Armed Forces--Personnel management.

Armed Forces.

Physical Description:

xiii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]

Contents:

Part I The Changing Environment

Chapter 2 The Transformation of European Military Capability, 1989-2005 / Jolyon Howorth 37

Chapter 3 Coping with Demography in NATO Europe: Military Recruitment in Times of Population Decline / Rickard Sandell 65

Chapter 4 Impact of NATO Membership on Military Service in the Baltic States / Vaidotas Urbelis 97

Part II The Choice of Personnel Model

Chapter 5 The Economic Case for All-Volunteer Forces / John T. Warner, Sebastian Negrusa 123

Chapter 6 The New Danish Model: Limited Conscription and Deployable Professionals / Bertel Heurlin 157

Chapter 7 General Conscription and Wartime Reserve in Finland / Hannu Herranen 179

Chapter 8 An All-Volunteer Force in Disguise: On the Transformation of the Armed Forces in Germany / Gerhard Kummel 203

Part III The Transition to All-Volunteer Forces

Chapter 9 The Transition to an All-Volunteer Force: The U.S. Experience / Bernard D. Rostker, Curtis L. Gilroy 233

Chapter 10 Cash and In-kind Compensation Policies for a Volunteer Force / Deborah Clay-Mendez 263

Chapter 11 The British Experience with an All-Volunteer Force / Keith Hartley 287

Chapter 12 Transition to an All-Volunteer Force: The French Experience / Sylvain Daffix, Vincent Medina, Cyr-Denis Nidier 313

Chapter 13 The All-Volunteer Spanish Armed Forces / Juan Lopez Diaz 331

Chapter 14 Romania's Transition to an All-Volunteer Force: Managerial Challenges and Opportunities / Mihaela Matei 355

Chapter 15 Recruitment in a Period of Transformation: The Italian Experience / Domenico Villani 381

Part IV Transforming Reserve Policies

Chapter 16 Sustaining an Effective Reserve: Implications of the New Security Environment for Reserve Forces / Chris Donnelly 397

Chapter 17 Transformation of the Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forces / John D. Winkler, Robert J. St. Onge, Jr., Karen I. McKenney, Jennifer C. Buck 413

Chapter 18 Strategic Trends for Reserves in Small European Countries: The Example of Slovakia / Peter Svec 437

Chapter 19 The Way Ahead: Transformation of Personnel Policies / Curtis L. Gilroy, Cindy Williams 459

About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 503.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262072769

9780262072762

0262572354

9780262572354

OCLC:

70176965