Citizens and soldiers : the dilemmas of military service /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Eliot A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Colección:Cornell studies in security affairs.
Temas:
Military service, Voluntary > United States.
Draft > United States.
Service militaire obligatoire > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
Draft.
Military service, Voluntary.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments / Cohen, Eliot A.
  • 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

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