Military representation: reflections and random observations
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Eitelberg, Mark J.
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1989-10
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October 1989
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Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
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The author of this paper is an authority on population participation in the military. In this invited paper, he begins by discussing the basic principles of population representation as applied to the military and core concerns in the modern era. He then offers personal observations on fourteen topics related to population representation in America’s All-Volunteer Force and in all militaries more generally. The author concludes that population representation is an unrealistic policy objective; it is an ideal encompassing many inconsistent ideas, conflicting concepts, differing definitions and criteria, as well as numerous unresolved policy issues. Yet, approximate population representation is an important policy objective for compelling reasons in times of both war and peace.
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Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Baltimore, Maryland, October 1989.
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Naval Postgraduate School
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27 p.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.