Demobilization
Demobilizationis the release or “draw down” of wartime military forces as the nation resumes peacetime status following a war or major buildup. It is, then, the opposing process of mobilization, which is the assembling and organizing of troops, materiel, and equipment for active military service in time of war or other national emergency. The extent of the process of demobilization depends upon the mobilization that preceded it. Factors include the size, duration, and location of conflict, as well as the level of technology and state of the industrial base and degree of public support. These factors, in turn, determine the number of men mobilized, the duration of service, the distance they move, and the equipment they use. Demobilization is as tumultuous and as fraught with change as mobilization, for after mobilization, and after the conflict, while there can be a normalizing, there cannot be a return to normality. Over the course of American...
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