Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006 / Robert Fantina.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Fantina, Robert.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 258 p.

Table of Contents

• 1. The Revolutionary War
• Corporal punishment
• Arduous military duty
• Lack of food
• Lack of clothing and related provisions
• Illness
• Lack of pay
• Homesickness
• Economic need
• British enticement
• British prisoners of war
• Bounty-jumping
• Ambivalence to the cause
• Fear
• Self-preservation
• 2. The War of 1812
• Problems with pay
• Lack of supplies
• Lack of food
• Illness
• Poor leadership
• Inadequate weaponry
• 3. The Mexican-American War
• Harsh conditions
• Poor leadership
• Corporal punishment
• Lack of belief in the cause
• Lack of basic rights as American citizens
• Poor wages
• Discrimination
• 4. The Civil War
• Nine categories of reasons for desertion
• Union policy on desertion during the Civil War
• 5. The Philippine-American War
• Horror of war, and apathy toward the cause of the war
• 6. World War I
• Absent without official leave
• Straggling
• Desertion
• 7. World War II
• Inability to adjust to military life
• Disagreement with or apathy towards the war
• Incompetent leadership
• Horror of war
• Family considerations
• 8.The Korean War
• Disagreement with the purpose of the war
• Poor leadership
• Horror at war's atrocities
• Family and home concerns
• 9. The Vietnam War
• Disagreement with the cause of the war
• The horrors or war
• Resistance to military life
• Family and personal needs
• 10. The Gulf War
• Cruelty towards the Iraqis
• living conditions
• Disagreement with the war
• The "stop loss" policy
• 11. The Iraq War
• Disagreement with the war
• The horror of war
• The stop-loss program
• 12. Other conflicts ; peacetime desertion
• Poor pay
• Conditions
• Inability to adjust to military life
• Poor leadership
• 13. Summary and analysis
• Contact injustices
• Judicial injustices.