Open AccessReview: The Indispensable Force: The Post-Cold War Operational Army Reserve, 1990-2010
Author(s) -
Julie A. Higbee
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
dttp/documents to the people
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0270-5095
pISSN - 0091-2085
DOI - 10.5860/dttp.v44i1.6063
Subject(s) - active duty , cold war , narrative , aeronautics , military personnel , business , political science , engineering , operations management , law , art , politics , literature
The Indispensable Force, by Katherine Coker, offers a narrative history of the US Army Reserve in the 1990s and 2000s, when the Reserve transitioned from being a “strategic reserve,” deployed after the active duty army, to an “operational reserve,” frequently deployed along with the active army.