Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
Our program will be the third in our series on whether the
United States Military is heading toward a "Hollow Force." The term
was first used during the period after the Vietnam War when the
United States had a large number of soldiers but a level of funding
insufficient to maintain the pace of operations, procure equipment,
or pay for modernization. Today, the United States operates in a
period of strategic uncertainty that requires the Armed Forces to
be equipped for countless contingencies. Maintaining a trained and
combat-ready force is therefore critical to America's preparedness
for war, but does the military have adequate resources for this to
be possible? Investing in equipment and force structure alone will
not be enough - the armed forces must provide improved military
education and training programs to sustain their ability to expand
and adapt.
Please join us as we continue our Hollow Force series with a
discussion of how avoid this problem.
More About the Speakers
Daniel Goure, Ph.D.
Vice President,
The Lexington Institute
Colonel Henry Alden Leonard, USA (Ret.)
Associate Director,
Manpower and Training,
The Rand Corporation's Arroyo Center
General Dennis Reimer, USA (Ret.)
President,
DFI Government Services, and
Former Army Chief of Staff
Hosted By
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies
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