Serving America's Veterans: A Reference Handbook

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Serving America's Veterans: A Reference Handbook comes from an impeccable source—former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations, and Logistics Lawrence J. Korb. Korb and his team of experts survey, analyze, and evaluate the infrastructural conditions, administrative and health care service challenges, policies, and politics affecting veterans affairs in the United States. They overview the historical context of contemporary veterans affairs and project the capabilities of the ...

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Overview

Serving America's Veterans: A Reference Handbook comes from an impeccable source—former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations, and Logistics Lawrence J. Korb. Korb and his team of experts survey, analyze, and evaluate the infrastructural conditions, administrative and health care service challenges, policies, and politics affecting veterans affairs in the United States. They overview the historical context of contemporary veterans affairs and project the capabilities of the Veterans Administration to cope with the needs of active, reserve, and retired veterans. Most critically, they provide practical prescriptions and policy recommendations to address veterans' many, pressing needs.

The full spectrum of veterans issues is examined: changing personnel policies in the armed forces; unprecedented levels of National Guard and Reserve mobilization; societal reintegration and funding adequacy when the professional military is a relatively small fraction of the U.S. electorate; rising costs of medical technology; and the growing proportion of veterans with conditions requiring protracted rehabilitation or lifelong intensive care.

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"Korb et al. (defense information and national security, Center for American Progress) examine veterans' affairs in the US, and the related infrastructural conditions, administrative and health care service challenges, and policy and political issues. They consider the history of veterans affairs; veteran demographics and their impact on the American political system; issues such as administrative barriers to accessing health care and benefits; and mental health problems, all of which have been affected by changes to personnel policies, unprecedented levels of National Guard and Reserve mobilization, changes to the length and number of tours, and the length of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other factors. The final chapter considers the challenges faced by General Eric Shinseki, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs."

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"This book would make a lasting contribution to the library of any service family or concerned citizen."

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"Filled with statistics and facts, this work offers a balanced approach to the good (caring for wounded veterans and the impact of veterans on the present society) and the bad (administrative barriers to VA health care and benefits). It is perfect for academic libraries. Summing up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above."

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Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Introduction Lawrence J. Korb 1

Chapter 2 The History of Veterans Affairs Peter M. Juul 15

Chapter 3 The Impact of Veterans on the American Political System Max A. Bergmann 51

Chapter 4 Veteran Demographics: Today's Population, Tomorrow's Projections Sean E. Duggan 93

Chapter 5 Administrative Barriers to Accessing VA Health Care and Benefits Sean E. Duggan 113

Chapter 6 Multiple Epidemics in Veteran Mental Health Sean E. Duggan 139

Chapter 7 Conclusion Lawrence J. Korb 155

Index 159

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