AVF 4.0: The Future of the All-Volunteer Force
A CNAS Working Paper
By Phillip Carter, Katherine Kidder, Amy Schafer and Andrew Swick
The U.S. armed forces are not made up of people; the U.S. armed forces are people.1 Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen constitute the beating heart of the national security machine. Without them, U.S. strategies are mere words on a page; combat units or systems cannot drive nor fly nor sail, let alone succeed on the battlefield.
And yet as important as human capital is for the success of the nation’s defense, the guiding principle for the services’ approach to human capital tends to be inertia, rather than an affirmative approach rooted in the needs of strategy or future battlefields.
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