Background
Military considerations
Cultural considerations
Alternatives
Security plans among other great powers.

National security in the postwar world / Paul Russell Anderson
Universal military training in modern history / Robert A. Graham
Procurement of manpower in American wars / Lewis B. Hershey
The plan of the armed services for universal military training / John J. McCloy
Universal military training and military preparedness / Oswald Garrison Villard
The value of universal military training in maintaining peace / Mary Earhart
Universal military training and American foreign policy / Halford L. Hoskins
Arming against Russia / Norman Thomas
The issue should be decided now / Randall Jacobs
The issue should be decided later / Francis J. Brown
Public opinion toward compulsory peacetime military training / Hedvig Ylvisaker
A sociologist looks at conscription / Willard Waller
The economic implications of universal military training / Rainer Schickele and Glenn Everett
Education
by whom, for what? / A.J. Brumbaugh
Professional army versus military training / Hajo Holborn
Wanted: an over-all plan of national defense / Ernest H. Wilkins
Military training through the National Guard / Omar B. Ketchum
National security and Great Britain / A.P. Young
National security and the Soviet Union / John N. Hazard
National security and France / Andr⥠Mesnard.