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...failure to secure a formal resolution in support of the plan must be counted as a trifling defeat for the partisans of a volunteer army led by Milton Friedman, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and Rep. Donald Rumsfeld (R-III.). In four days of lobbying within the conference hall and without, the group convinced many delegates that at the very least, military salaries should be raised to see if the enlistment rate would rise...
...Friedman cited a report indicating that if the government spent an additional four to six million dollars a year on military salaries, it could attract enough men into the army to end the draft, and still maintain a three million man force...
...Defense Department official questioned the professor's figures and the as sumption that the enlistment rate would rise with an increase in salary. Friedman replied that the surest way to see who was right was to raise pay and watch what happened...
Speaking quickly, Friedman answered these objections by saying that the army behind Napoleon had been conscriptive, as was the one that took control in Argentina recently. Besides, he said, it was the officers, not the men, who presented a threat to civilain control...
...long as the United States recruits its men for the service academies from all parts of the country and maintains ROTC in the colleges, an elite officer class will not be formed, Friedman said...