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...speech and the subsequent questions he took from students in the KSG’s Masters of Public Policy program, Hagel addressed the importance and challenges of maintaining an all-volunteer military, while also stressing the need to make “tough choices” to deal with the current problems facing government spending...
Since the military’s switch to relying purely on volunteer soldiers in the decades since Vietnam, it has become the “best led, best trained, best equipped, and best supported” force America has ever had, Vietnam veteran Hagel said...
Falling recruitment and retention ratios caused by repeated deployments of troops to Iraq and elsewhere are making it increasingly difficult for America to live up to its commitments, Hagel said...
...Hagel added that the military needed to offer Americans more benefits like education, housing, and health care to convince them to join and stay in the military...
Addressing the opposition of some politicians to U.S. involvement in organization such as the United Nations, Hagel acknowledged that “every institution is not without flaws,” but said that such institutions have done a “tremendous job” of improving the state of the world since World...