Product Description: Discusses how manpower and personnel policies can be used to produce the changes in military culture needed for transformation.

Product Description: Four bills are pending in Congress to reduce the age at which reservists can begin to receive retirement benefits. This report provides input regarding these proposals and the broader issues surrounding reserve retirement reform. Although it is important to recognize that deferring some portion of compensation can be cost-effective, the results argue in favor of providing compensation on a current rather than a deferred basis...read more

Product Description: Approximately two million individuals serving in America's all-volunteer force have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. In 2005, RAND began an ongoing research program to investigate the effects of deployment on those troops and their families...read more

Product Description: RAND Arroyo Center researchers analyzed a proposal allowing vested Army reservists to receive military retirement benefits immediately upon retiring from the Selected Reserve. They assessed effects on the size and experience mix of the Army reserve and active components, for enlisted personnel and officers, and for the steady state and the transition to it...read more