Veterans Transition and Defense Conversion Project: Phase I Summary Report, an Annotated Briefing

This briefing serves as the Phase I Summary Report of the Veterans Transition and Defense Conversion Project, and presents CNA's analysis of the concept 'Strategic Reinvestment to Strengthen Youth.' The issue addressed is how best to reinvest--in a strategic sense--Cold War resources to strengthen America's youth. In other words, the study investigates the idea of infusing the nation's youth-services system with some of the military resources being freed up by the ongoing defense drawdown, looking primarily at personnel transitioning out of service and base facilities undergoing shrinkage or realignment into the civilian sector.