Military leaders attempted to confront the crisis that most of us have agreed actually did occur in the vietnam war. I am beth bailey. Ill be moderating this. Sitting next to me is richard hunt who has written the biography of melvin laird. Next to him is bob griffith who is the world expert on the creation of the allvolunteer force. And next to him is jennifer middlestat who has written a really wonderful book called the military welfare state. And i wrote a book called americas army, creating the allvolunteer force. So im at least qualified to be asking questions up here. And there is no way that im going to match in my suavity as moderator. Ill do my best. I think that everyone of us sitting up here would agree that there is no one factor that explains why the United States moved to an allvolunteer force, but at the same time we are sitting here as part of a panel that directly ties the move to military leaders attempts to manage the powers of manpower moral in vietnam. The presumpt
This is about an hour. So, this is the final panel before our keynote address, and it is the second section looking at the ways in which the military as an institution and military leaders attempted to confront the crisis that most of us have agreed actually did occur following the tet offensive in the vietnam war, the u. S. War in vietnam. I am beth bailey. Ill be moderating this. And sitting next to me is richard hunt, who has written the definitive biography of melvin laird. Next to him is bob griffith, who is the worlds expert on the creation of the allvolunteer force, and next to him is jennifer middlestat, who has written a really wonderful book called the military welfare state. And i wrote a book called Americas Army creating the allvolunteer force, so im at least qualified to be asking questions up here. And there is no way that im going to match greg in my suavity as moderator, but ill do my best. So, as i was trying to draft the questions, which i then circulated for comment