{"product_id":"the-downsized-warrior-americas-army-in-transition-9780814755846","title":"The Downsized Warrior: America's Army in Transition","description":"\u003cp\u003eDownsizing has become one of the defining phenomena of the post-Cold War era, a trend affecting few sectors of American life more than the armed forces. Between 1989 and 1996, the active duty Army was cut back by more than a third, from 770,000 soldiers to fewer than half a million. Additional cuts are virtually certain to follow.\u003cbr\u003e How has the Army implemented this mandate to downsize? What common threads exist between past post-war cutbacks and today's redistribution of the peace dividend? How has downsizing affected the morale, devotion, and disposition of the Army's officers, whose commitment to the institution profoundly determines its effectiveness? Crucially, is it truly possible to institute the radical transformation that downsizing requires without affecting the Army's ability to fight and win future wars?\u003cbr\u003e As David McCormick demonstrates in this authoritative volume, the Army's downsizing is a story of both failure and success. Unable to make a persuasive case for a larger force, the Army's leaders made dramatic reductions, particularly among the officer corps. Though executed with compassion and precision, these cuts have taken their toll, undermining morale and resulting in dangerous pathologies which threaten the Army at its core. While the downsizing of the Army is unique in that it was externally mandated, the Army's experience is instructive for all organizations--government, corporate, and nonprofit alike--faced with the need to streamline their operations.\u003cbr\u003e Basing his conclusions on hundreds of in-depth interviews with officers across all ranks and senior civilian and military leaders, as well as exhaustive research with Pentagon documents, McCormick has given us a definitive portrait of today's U.S. Army in transition, one that will transform our thinking about both downsizing and the military.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David H. McCormick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.34w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814755846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcCormick, David H.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A former Army officer and a Gulf War veteran, \u003cb\u003eDavid McCormick\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and holds a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40183700684915,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_57a1aa9c-6e09-4c60-80aa-8415dd1edcd6.jpg?v=1655558166","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-downsized-warrior-americas-army-in-transition-9780814755846","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}