The United States Volunteer Force of 1899–1901

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-43
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Volunteer Force

scholarly journals Managing the all-volunteer force in a time of war

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis J. Simon ◽  
John T. Warner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Reasonable Cost ◽  
Volunteer Force ◽  
Military Services ◽  
The U.S ◽  
All Volunteer Force

After a rocky start to the volunteer military in the late 1970s, since 1980 the United States military services have met or exceeded their recruiting and retention goals in most years and have done so at reasonable cost. The ongoing conflict in Iraq is the U.S. military's first protracted conflict since the inception of the volunteer force and raises questions about its impacts on recruiting, retention, and cost. This article briefly examines the effects of the war on recruiting, retention, and cost and studies ways of expanding the size of the active Army force, including a return to conscription.

scholarly journals The Record and Prospects of the All-Volunteer Military in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T Warner ◽  
Beth J Asch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Volunteer Force

From the onset of World War II until July 1973, the draft was a fact of life for male youth in the United States. Since then, America's armed forces have been staffed by volunteers. Recent recruiting difficulties have precipitated calls from some quarters for a return to conscription. This paper reviews the economic issues involved in the choice over conscription versus volunteerism and it reviews the volunteer force record in the U. S. Despite recent recruiting difficulties, the case for the volunteer force is more compelling today than it was in 1973.

The Motivation to Enlist Among Kurds

2021 ◽  
pp. 0095327X2110380
Author(s):  
Matthew Cancian
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Northern Iraq ◽  
Monetary Rewards ◽  
Group Mobilization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Volunteer Force ◽  
The Military ◽  
All Volunteer Force

Although humans have voluntarily joined militaries throughout history, research on the motivation to enlist has increased dramatically since the adoption of the All-Volunteer Force in the United States. Moskos categorized the motivations to enlist as institutional (the value alignment of the individual with the military) or occupational (the seeking of monetary rewards for competencies at market rates). This study explores the prevalence of these two traditional motivations in addition to two less commonly studied motivations—group mobilization and revenge-seeking—in an important context: the Kurds of northern Iraq. A survey of 2301 Kurdish soldiers (Peshmerga) during their war against the Islamic State (IS) indicates that institutional motivations are the most prevalent, although all four motivations are present. The importance of group mobilization and revenge-seeking represent important variations from the better-studied Western contexts that complicate our understanding of the motivation to enlist.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

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