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
Both served in vietnam, now join historians to discuss low morale in the final years of the vietnam war. It was part of an allday conference titled manpower and mora morale. I would like to welcome everybody back for afternoon session. Charles bowrey, i would like to start off again by thanking beth bailey and ksu for hosting this great event today as well as thanks to our historical colleagues at the u. S. Army combined center in ft. Leavenworth, kansas, for their collaboration in this and others surrounding the vietnam 50g9 wah anniversary. Archivists working around the world do their best to ensure that the Historical Perspective and Critical Thinking skills generated by a study of history are leveraged throughout the army and that they make the army a learning organization. The army History Program provides a capability that results in a more effective future force, and im honored to serve as this communitys advocate at the department of the Army Headquarters level. Without furth a
Reasons, but the number one reason today that i love aei is because only here is a conference on government statistics more popular than the rolling stones. That is a great thing. This is a topic that doesnt normally get headlined, but lets face it, in a time when the phrase alternative facts has entered the american lexicon, is anything more important than what were going to talk about today. At aei we arent completely dedicated to the proposition that rigorous, rocksolid Empirical Data are essential for evaluating the success and failure of Public Policy and for ensuring that we are fulfilling the true purpose of our work which is to help more people live a better life. We are delighted to partner with the Brookings Institution and the hamilton project to examine this critical subject and we are co releasing a paper on the topic and this is a free event for that paper. I want to introduce our panel in our keynote speaker. Our panel today starts with Martin Feldstein of harvard and th