Military personnel transitioning to civilian life

Author: Liao Guogeng
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The army is the solid backing of national security and the strong pillar of social stability. Building a revolutionary, standardized, and modernized army with strong combat capabilities is a grand goal of our military construction. To achieve this grand goal, the army's entry and exit must always remain open. On one hand, it is essential to allow qualified new personnel to smoothly enter the military organization. On the other hand, it is necessary to enable military personnel who are no longer suited to modern military development (including soldiers and officers) to exit the military organization smoothly. Therefore, some active-duty officers retiring from the military and finding new employment in civilian life is an objective need to enhance the army's combat effectiveness and achieve the grand goal of building a revolutionary, standardized, and modernized army. It is also a realistic and inevitable phenomenon in the construction of China's socialist modernization. Exploring the patterns of career role transformation for retired officers and developing strategies to accelerate this transformation has become a topic of significant practical value. Dr. Liao Guogeng, an associate professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the National University of Defense Technology of the People's Liberation Army, has written "Out of the Barracks: A Study of Retired Military Officers," which is a valuable, exploratory, and pioneering effort to address this topic that holds both significant practical and theoretical value.