Associated Press/AOL News Poll, December 12-14, 2006, http://www.pollingreport.com/21st.htm (accessed January 2010). In the same survey, 25 percent of respondents believed it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that "Jesus Christ will return to earth" in 2007. In contrast, 18 percent of adults felt that the United States should return to a draft in a Gallup Poll conducted in August 2007; this contrasts to 59 percent who were favorable toward a draft in 1980, according to Gallup. See U.S. Military/Gallup Poll, August 13 to 16, 2007, http://pollingreport.com/defense.htm#Military (accessed July 2009).
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Rostker was a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation at the time of publication. In addition to Under Secretary of Defense, Rostker has served as Under Secretary of the Army, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Director of Selective Service, among other positions. He is the author of numerous publications.
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The symposium was originally suggested by Public Administration Review and organized by the author of this review.
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At the time of the symposium, Anderson was at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, completing a second book on Ronald Reagan; Carter was an associate in the law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge and a frequent contributor of articles on national security issues; Eitelberg was a professor of public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School; Flyer, with more than fifty years of research experience, was working independently as a defense contractor; Goldich had retired from the Congressional Research Service and was authoring a book; Jehn was a Vice President with Cray Incorporated and formerly Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel, among other positions; Phillips was a retired Army Brigadier General and a former Department of the Army official; Pirie was a former Acting Secretary of the Navy, among other senior Defense positions, as well as former President of Essex Corporation and Vice President of the Center for Naval Analyses; Shields was a professor at Texas State University and editor of Armed Forces & Society; and Warner was a professor of economics at Clemson University and a prolific researcher and writer. It should be noted that quotations and comments, including the author’s evaluation of the panel’s collective opinion, should not be attributed to any one individual member of the panel. Individual opinions often varied on specific questions as well as in the level of agreement attributed to the group as a whole.
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Rostker purposely avoids delving too deeply in the politics of the draft, recognizing that others have thoroughly examined this topic in previous publications. In addition, Rostker does cover the area quite extensively with the book’s extensive collection of source material (on the accompanying DVD).
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Bernard D. Rostker, America Goes to War: Managing the Force during Times of Stress and Uncertainty (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2007).
