Restoring Military Professionalism

Publication Date: August 1985

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): William L. Hauser

Research Area: Military and defense

Keywords: National security

Type: Report

Abstract:

In the debate over "military reform," there is a curious absence of proposals for the most essential reform of all: restoration of military professionalism. Without it, attempts at specific improvements are less likely to be effective, for the military is a powerful institution in the U.S. political system, eminently capable of resisting externally imposed change. With such a restoration of professionalism, however, the military can and will reform itself.