The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness), referred to throughout this report as P&R, is responsible for the total force management of all Department of Defense (DoD) components including the recruitment, readiness, and retention of personnel. Its work and policies are supported by a number of organizations both within DoD, including the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), and externally, including the federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) that work for DoD. P&R must be able to answer questions for the Secretary of Defense such as how to recruit people with an aptitude for and interest in various specialties and along particular career tracks and how to assess on an ongoing basis service members' career satisfaction and their ability to meet new challenges. P&R must also address larger-scale questions, such as how the current realignment of forces to the Asia-Pacific area and other regions will affect recruitment, readiness, and retention. While DoD makes use of large-scale data and mathematical analysis in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and elsewhereâ€"exploiting techniques such as complex network analysis, machine learning, streaming social media analysis, and anomaly detectionâ€"these skills and capabilities have not been applied as well to the personnel and readiness enterprise. Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions offers and roadmap and implementation plan for the integration of data analysis in support of decisions within the purview of P&R.

From the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of Vietnam. This new book makes clear that something closer to the opposite is true--that U.S. foreign policy makers have learned little from the past, even as they have been obsessed with the "Vietnam Syndrome." Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam brings together the country's leading historians of the Vietnam experience. Examining the profound changes that have occurred in the country and the military since the Vietnam War, celebrated historians Marilyn B. Young and Lloyd Gardner have assembled a distinguished group to consider how America has again found itself in the midst of a war in which there is no chance of a speedy victory or a sweeping regime change. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam explores how the "Vietnam Syndrome" fits into the contemporary debate about the purpose and exercise of American power in the world. With contributions from some of the most renowned analysts of American history and foreign policy, this is an essential recovery of the forgotten and misbegotten lessons of Vietnam. Contributors: Christian G. Appy Andrew J. Bacevich David Elliott Alex Danchev Elizabeth L. Hillman Gabriel Kolko Walter LaFeber Wilfried Mausbach Alfred W. McCoy Gareth Porter John Prados Marilyn B. Young

GAO-05-952 Military Personnel: Reporting Additional Servicemember Demographics Could Enhance Congressional Oversight

Foreword: Feminism's assumptions upended / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Introduction / Tara McKelvey -- Abu Ghraib : it's like an S & M club, only it's real / Eve Ensler -- Sexual coercion, prisons, and female responses / Angela Davis -- Why did Jennifer Scala bring cunt into the courtroom? / Ada Calhoun -- Split screens / Karen J. Greenberg -- The women of Abu Ghraib / Francine D'Amico -- The misogynist undercurrents of Abu Ghraib / Lucinda Marshall -- Shock and awe : Abu Ghraib, women military police, and racially gendered torture / Ilene Feinman -- Gender and sexual violence in the military / Jumana Musa -- Women soldiers and interrogational abuses in the war on terror / Steven H. Miles -- The "mean girls" of Abu Ghraib / Erin Solaro -- Guarding women : Abu Ghraib and military sexual culture / Elizabeth L. Hillman -- "Beautiful souls" : the role of women in war / Aziz Huq -- Photography/pornography/torture : the politics of seeing Abu Ghraib / Laura Frost -- Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib? / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn -- Is that the pose of a liberated woman? / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon -- Feminism as imperialism / Katharine Viner -- The "sex interrogators" of Guantanamo / Kristine A. Huskey -- Women in the interrogation room / Riva Khoshaba -- Women's role in mob violence : lynchings and Abu Ghraib / LaNitra Walker -- George W. Bush and the war on women / Barbara Finlay -- Lynndie England in love / Janis Karpinski -- The military made me do it : double standards and psychic injuries at Abu Ghraib / Lila Rajiva -- Afterword / Cynthia Enloe.