Cover title. Commonly known as the Gates report.

pt. I. Introduction -- Protecting the free society -- The debate -- pt. II. Conscription is a tax -- Military personnel requirements -- Compensation and management of military personnel -- Officer procurement and retention -- Recruitment -- Conscription of physicians -- Reserves -- The standby draft -- Budgetary implications -- Objections to an all-volunteer force -- Conscription in America -- Recent foreign experience with voluntarism -- Alternatives to an all-volunteer force -- Budget expenditures for all-volunteer forces -- Military and civilian compensation -- Review of the 1966 Dept. Of Defense draft study.