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Rack PR – Recruiting & On-Boarding
Aisle P — Personnel & Talent Management
Library: Main Page — Professional Development (A) — Defense Enterprise (E) — Force Structure (F) — Modernization (M) — Personnel (P) — Readiness (R) — Special Enterprises (S) — Resource Management (X) — References (Z)
Personnel (P): Manpower Strategies (PA) — Civilian Pers. Management (PC) — Development & Evaluation (PD) — Professional Military Education (PE) — Diversity & Inclusion (PI) — Pay & Benefits (PP) — Recruiting & On-Boarding (PR) — Training & Credentialing (PT) — Utilization (PU) — All-Volunteer Force & Selective Service (PV) — Casualty & Survivor Programs (PX) — Service & Joint Personnel (PZ)
Disclaimer: The inclusion of resources here is for informational, historical, and research purposes only and is provided as a service for US Army War College faculty, students, and graduates to support their educational and professional requirements. These may include outdated or superseded materials. The inclusion of these materials does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army, or Department of Defense.
Resources on this rack address the recruitment and on-boarding processes for the services — including matters pertaining to the recruiting pool, the recruiting process and infrastructure, and the initial on-boarding/mobilization/basic training processes, systems, and facilities. This rack is currently just a stub — suggestions and nominations of resources very much welcome.
This shelf provides resources associated with the general theory and practice of recruiting and on-boarding
Faculty Publications:
- Abbe, Allison with Ron Granieri, “Recruiting Woes: A Case of Self-Sabotage?” WAR ROOM, September 13, 2022, https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/podcasts/self-sabotage/.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- None.
Strategies and Reports:
- Center for Data Analysis, Who Serves in the Military? Demographic Characteristics of Enlisted Troops and Officers (Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation, 2008), https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/who-serves-the-us-military-the-demographics-enlisted-troops-and-officers
- Cody, Vicky. Your Soldier, Your Army: A Family Guide (Washington, DC: Association of the United States Army, 2017), https://www.ausa.org/publications/your-soldier-your-army-family-guide
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- Kagan, Frederick W., “The U.S. Military’s Manpower Crisis,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2006), https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2006-07-01/us-militarys-manpower-crisis
- Leskys, Vylius. “Optimizing Army Recruiting,” WAR ROOM, July 22, 2019, https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/optimizing-army-recruiting/
- Long, James. “It’s Not the Economy: Why the Army Missed its Recruitment Goals and What to Do About It”, Modern War Institute, February 14, 2019, https://mwi.usma.edu/not-economy-army-missed-recruitment-goals/
- O’Connell, Damien. “The Few, the Proud, the Last: Marine Corps Recruiting and Gaming in a COVID-19 World,” WAR ROOM, May 21, 2020, https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/covid-19/recruiting-and-gaming/
- Phillips, Dave and Tim Arango, “Who Signs Up to Fight? Makeup of U.S. Recruits Shows Glaring Disparity,” New York Times, January 10, 2020, ProQuest
- Wortzel, Larry M. “A Comparison of Recruitment and Training Problems in the U.S. Army and China’s People’s Liberation Army,” Land Warfare Paper #140 (Washington, DC: Association of the United States Army, 2021), https://www.ausa.org/publications/combat-multiplier-examining-security-force-assistance-brigades-role-future-army
Title image credit: U.S. Army photo, public domain.
Personnel (P): Manpower Strategies (PA) — Civilian Pers. Management (PC) — Development & Evaluation (PD) — Professional Military Education (PE) — Diversity & Inclusion (PI) — Pay & Benefits (PP) — Recruiting & On-Boarding (PR) — Training & Credentialing (PT) — Utilization (PU) — All-Volunteer Force & Selective Service (PV) — Casualty & Survivor Programs (PX) — Service & Joint Personnel (PZ)
Library: Main Page — Professional Development (A) — Defense Enterprise (E) — Force Structure (F) — Modernization (M) — Personnel (P) — Readiness (R) — Special Enterprises (S) — Resource Management (X) — References (Z)