Showing posts with label soldiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soldiers. Show all posts
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Marijuana and military recruitment

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 Here's a proposal for a bit pf reality-based legislation that has some bipartisan support. DefenseOne has the story: Proposed marijuana...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Talent management in the Marine Corps--lateral entry?

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"Talent management" is making inroads in the armed forces.  One anomaly of military service is that almost all of its personnel en...
Friday, December 30, 2022

The market for battlefield intelligence

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Here's a column from the Washington Post, which (although it reads partly like an ad from Palantir) emphasizes that real time battlefiel...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

The labor market that is the United States Marine Corps

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  Armed forces around the world have some unique labor force problems, since by and large they do no lateral hiring...every senior officer w...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Economic warfare: how to staff it?

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  The Financial Times has a story about how the UK Ministry of Defense runs an economic warfare unit, which needs to be staffed differently ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process, by Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak & Tayfun Sönmez,

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  Here's a new NBER working paper that marks a significant step forward in matching soldiers to positions. Mechanism Design meets Priori...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Keeping pilots in the Air Force, in the face of renewed, post-pandemic demand from airlines

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 I spent a good deal of time last year working on understanding the internal labor market of the Air Force, and how it interacts with the la...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Officer assignment in the U.S. Army

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In a recent post I discussed the NAS report on the military labor force, focusing on the new Talent Marketplaces, and some of the difficul...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

The labor market that is the military: a report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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  I recently served as a member of a National Academies committee on the issues facing the Air Force in managing its human capital, i.e. its...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Wearing military honors is a protected transaction

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  The New Yorker has an interesting story that sheds light on how we think of honorable or exceptional military service, and how claims abou...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Job market technology is diffusing slowly through the armed forces

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Here's a story from the Army Times, about trying to incorporate enlisted soldiers' preferences into their job assignments. (I hope ...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

The labor force that is the Army

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The Army Times has this story: Choose your job: Army offers soldiers career agency to bolster retention Kyle Rempfer "Assignment ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Matching officers to branches at West Point

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West Point grads get assignments through new branching system By Brandon OConnor "During a ceremony Nov. 13, 1,089 members of the ...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Medal of Honor

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Some months ago I bookmarked a piece in the Wall Street Journal, about the Medal of Honor , the U.S. military's highest combat award.  ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

West Point: adopts two sided matching for cadets to military branches

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From the Army Times (the links in the story are worth clicking on for related detail): West Point has changed how cadets are assigned bra...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Cadet branch matching satisfies traditional assumptions: Ravi Jagadeesan in AEJ: Micro

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Cadet-Branch Matching in a Kelso-Crawford Economy By Ravi Jagadeesan American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2019, 11(3): 191–224https...