병역제도의 형평성과 효율성에 대한 소고 : 비교분석과 정책대안

A comparative analysis on social fairness and economic efficiency of military service system

The recent military and political developments in Korean peninsula have a need for a re-examination of the military service system In times of war when nearly everyone must serve to assure the defense of the nation, alternatives to a draft are judged to be to costly or infeasible. Peacetime demands for military personnel are considerably smaller, with the consequence that a draft becomes selective. Debates over the equity of the selection process (which under the current draft translates into deferment policies) are symptomatic of a search for an alternative to current military manpower procurement policies. To say that a particular alternative such as all-volunteer force is preferable to the current system implies that the cost of the alternative is, in some sense, lower that the cost of the draft. In this paper, I analyse theoretical issues with aid of empirical dates associated with the social fairness and economic efficiency of military serve system.