For 50 Years, Recruiting a Volunteer Military Was Salesmanship. Now, Few Are Buying.
In the spring of 1977, a letter appeared in Proceedings, the long-running journal of the U.S. Naval Institute. “I am no malcontent,” wrote a junior enlisted Navy man. “I love the Navy and believe in a strong national defense. But, I believe a man who is treated with dignity and respect, rather than like a […]