Manpower Resources

FUNDAMENTAL reorganization of the nation’s military reserves has been urged in a report entitled “Manpower Resources for National Security” which was prepared for the Office of Defense Mobilization by its Committee of Resources for National Security under the chairmanship of Lawrence A. Appley, president of the American Management Association. The Appley Committee study, conducted in response to a request made on August 1, 1953, by President Eisenhower, was concerned with “the availability of manpower simultaneously to operate a military training program, to supply military personnel for active service, and to meet the needs of the civilian economy”. The report was submitted to the White House on January 6th by ODM Director Arthur S. Fleming together with proposals which were to have been formulated, at the President’s request, into a definite program for presentation to the National Security Council not later than April 1st.