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Veteran Disability Compensation and the Army Profession: Good Intentions Gone Awry
January 29, 2021 — Veteran Disability Compensation and the Army Profession: Good Intentions Gone Awry — Dr Wong Leonard, Dr Gerras Stephen — Monograph by the US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College Press — "For 40 years, from 1960 to 1999, about 8 percent of the veteran population received disability compensation. In 2000 the percentage edged up to 9 percent or 2.3 million veterans. By 2018 the percentage had tripled to 24 percent or 4.7 million veterans. Although many researchers attribute this upward trend to the influx of wounded from the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, the authors show that favorable legislative action, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy changes, societal developments, and improved information flow enabled and encouraged many more veterans to file for disability. The rise in the number of veterans receiving disability compensation signaled a cultural transformation concerning disability compensation that would eventually spread throughout the US Army and the other services."... MORE

Cover for monograph by US Army War College: Veteran Disability Compensation and the Army Profession: Good Intentions Gone Awry