Someone has a chapter on this, right? "The All-Volunteer Force was recommended in 1970 by a commission chaired by former Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates, & members included economist Milton Friedman, Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, & NAACP Director Roy Wilkins."
I was actually looking at the Gates Commission report over the last few weeks for something I was writing and I admit the author list was interesting. Not one historian to question some of the pollyannish claims about how the budget and civ-mil would be just fine.
