TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snider,Don M.
ED  - US Army War College.
TI  - Once again, the challenge to the U.S. Army during a defense reduction: to remain a military profession 
T2  - Professional military ethics monograph series
SN  - 1584875216
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Carlisle, PA
PB  - Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
KW  - army
KW  - reductions
KW  - ethics
KW  - USA
KW  - professional army
N1  - "February 2012."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-34); Introduction -- The background realities -- Including Army civilians -- The essential characteristics of the Army profession -- The way ahead -- Conclusion
N2  - As with the post-Cold War downsizing during the Clinton administration in the late 1990s, one critical challenge for the U.S. Army centers on the qualitative, institutional character of the Army after the reductions -- will the U.S. Army manifest the essential characteristics and behavior of a military profession with soldiers and civilians who see themselves sacrificially called to a vocation of service to country within a motivating professional culture that sustains a meritocratic ethic, or will the Army's character be more like any other government occupation in which its members view themselves as filing a job, motivated mostly by the extrinsic factors of pay, location, and work hours? In mid-2010, the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff directed the Commanding General, Training and Doctrine Command, then General Martin Dempsey, to undertake a broad campaign of learning, involving the entire Department. The intent was to think through what it means for the Army to be a profession of arms and for its soldiers and civilians to be professionals as the Army largely returns stateside after a decade of war and then quickly transitions to the new era of Defense reductions. Several new preceptions of the Army as a military profession have been produced, along with numerous initiatives that are currently being staffed to strengthen the professional character of the Army as it simultaneously recovers from a decade of war and transitions through reductions in force. They form the descriptive content of this monograph
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