Force Drawdowns and Demographic Diversity: Investigating the Impact of Force Reductions on the Demographic Diversity of the U.S. Military : RAND Corporation , 2015
Force Drawdowns and Demographic Diversity: Investigating the Impact of Force Reductions on the Demographic Diversity of the U.S. Military : RAND Corporation , 2015
From the preface: "In January 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced plans for a major reduction in the size of the U.S. armed force—a force drawdown—in response to budgetary constraints and an upcoming end to combat operations in Afghanistan. Although the Navy and Air Force already reduced their forces earlier, in the mid-2000s, the Army and Marine Corps had not seen a major reduction since the 1990s, after the Cold War. With some exceptions, the services did not take demographic diversity into account in their drawdown goals and strategies in the 1990s. With another drawdown occurring, DoD asked the RAND Corporation to examine whether future reductions could have unintended negative consequences for racial/ethnic minorities and women. To examine this issue, RAND conducted a review and analysis of the demographic profile changes during the 1990s drawdown and the mid-2000s drawdowns in the Navy and Air Force, followed by an analysis of the potential impact of force reduction policy decisions on the demographic profile of the DoD workforce. This report should be of interest to policymakers and others concerned with how force management decisions not specifically geared toward diversity goals may nonetheless affect demographic diversity."
Authors - Lytell, Maria C., Marquis, Jefferson P., Lim, Nelson, Hall, Kimberly Curry, Kuhn, Kenneth D., Stewart, Robert, Wenger, Jennie W.Subjects
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