After years of backsliding, the ADF is growing again. What’s behind the recruitment uptick?
- Written by Robert Hoffmann, Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been facing a recruitment crisis for years. A lack of young people wanting to join has prompted a variety of responses from the force, including opening eligibility to some foreigners.
Given talk of chronic shortages and a perennial recruitment crisis in Western volunteer forces, it’s somewhat surprising...
