Serving America's Veterans: A Reference Handbook

Lawrence J. Korb,Sean E. Duggan,Peter M. Juul,Max A. Bergmann

Serving America's Veterans: A Reference Handbook
Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Published
10 August 2009
Pages
164
ISBN
9780313355264

Serving America’s Veterans: A Reference Handbook

Lawrence J. Korb,Sean E. Duggan,Peter M. Juul,Max A. Bergmann

In this authoritative handbook, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense lays out the infrastructural, administrative, and health care challenges facing the Veterans Administration, policymakers, and our veterans themselves.

Serving America’s Veterans: A Reference Handbook comes from an impeccable source-former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations, and Logistics Lawrence J. Korb. Korb and his team of experts survey, analyze, and evaluate the infrastructural conditions, administrative and health care service challenges, policies, and politics affecting veterans affairs in the United States. They overview the historical context of contemporary veterans affairs and project the capabilities of the Veterans Administration to cope with the needs of active, reserve, and retired veterans. Most critically, they provide practical prescriptions and policy recommendations to address veterans’ many, pressing needs.

The full spectrum of veterans issues is examined: changing personnel policies in the armed forces; unprecedented levels of National Guard and Reserve mobilization; societal reintegration and funding adequacy when the professional military is a relatively small fraction of the U.S. electorate; rising costs of medical technology; and the growing proportion of veterans with conditions requiring protracted rehabilitation or lifelong intensive care.

Timeline

Appendixes

Glossary

Annotated Bibliography

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