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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hunt, Richard A., 1942- author.     Subjects     Laird, Melvin R.     United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography.     United States. Department of Defense -- History     Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.     Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.     United States -- Military policy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hunt, Richard A., 1942- author.       by title:      Melvin Laird and the...         MARC Display

Melvin Laird and the foundation of the post-Vietnam military, 1969-1973 / Richard A. Hunt. by Hunt, Richard A., 1942- author. Washington, D.C. : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2015. Subjects Laird, Melvin R.   United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography.   United States. Department of Defense -- History   Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.   Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.   United States -- Military policy. ISBN:  9780160927577 (alk. paper) 0160927579 (alk. paper) Series:  Secretaries of Defense historical series ; volume 7. Description:  xx, 708 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Contents:  Change comes to the Pentagon -- Organizing national security in a new administration -- How much for defense? The FY 1970 budget -- The predicament of Vietnam -- The battle over troop withdrawals -- Taking the fight into Cambodia -- The war in Laos -- Preparing South Vietnam to stand alone -- A time of trial: the Easter Offensive and Vietnamization -- Looking beyond Vietnam: the FY 1971 budget -- A turning point: the FY 1972 budget -- The enduring commitment to NATO -- Change in East Asia -- The all-volunteer force -- Strategic defense: ABM and SALT -- Realistic deterrence? The FY 1973 budget -- Military assistance -- Looking toward the future: the FY 1974 budget -- Fixing the fraying force -- Laird's legacy. Requests:  0 Summary:  "[E]xamines the former Congressman Melvin Laird's efforts to reconstitute the Department of Defense during the last years of the Vietnam war ... Laird acted to mitigate the adverse effects of the Vietnam War on the department and to prepare the nation's armed forces for the future. Foremost was the transition from a conscripted military to an all-volunteer force, a fundamental policy shift that ended an unpopular and inequitable draft system."--Jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library R -- Federal Documents 355.03357 Laird Hu Non Circulating Add Copy to MyList

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