Hearings

Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 2060

ISBN-13:

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Melvin Laird and the Foundation of the Post-Vietnam Military, 1969-1973

Melvin Laird and the Foundation of the Post-Vietnam Military, 1969-1973

Author: Richard A. Hunt

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780160927577

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"[E]xamines the former Congressman Melvin Laird's efforts to reconstitute the Department of Defense during the last years of the Vietnam war... Laird acted to mitigate the adverse effects of the Vietnam War on the department and to prepare the nation's armed forces for the future. Foremost was the transition from a conscripted military to an all-volunteer force, a fundamental policy shift that ended an unpopular and inequitable draft system."--from jacket.