| Description |
1 online resource (227 pages) |
| Series |
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs |
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Cornell studies in security affairs.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) |
| Subject |
Military service, Voluntary -- United States.
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Draft -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
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Draft
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Military service, Voluntary
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501733772 |
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150173377X |
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