Citizens and Soldiers : : The Dilemmas of Military Service / / Eliot A. Cohen.
Why has the United States, unlike every other 20th-century world power, failed to settle on a durable system of military service? In this lucid book, Eliot Cohen studies the enduring problems of America's methods of raising an army.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Constraints: Necessity and Choice
- 2. Military Service and the Mass Army: 1776 to 1914
- 3. Systems of Military Service and Total War
- 4. Systems of Military Service and Small Wars
- 5. Military Service and Republican Ideology: Civic Obligations and the Citizen-Soldier
- 6. Military Service and Republican Ideology: Liberalism and Egalitarianism
- 7. American Manpower Policy, 1940-1970
- 8. The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force
- 9. Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index