Fixing Army Retention

Don't forget to check the responses to the post--Dictynna.

Posted by Mother on April 14, 2005 - 4:08pm

We have written a lot on "This is Rumor Control" about recent US military recruitment and retention failures, but admittedly have not delved into solutions to the problem. If the Army is going to sustain the current engagement in Iraq and be prepared to respond to other unforeseen (not really that unforeseen) crises in, say, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, North Korea or Iran, this is a problem it must solve. If nothing is done to fix the problems of the all-volunteer military, reinstituting the draft could become the only solution. So what do we do? A new study from RAND has some recommendations to address current retention problems.