Author: George William Nasmyth
Publisher:
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: William A. Taylor
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700630406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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“When I became secretary of defense,” Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, “I made a commitment to building America's force of the future. In the twenty-first century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest possible pool of talent.” That “pool of talent”—and how our nation's civilian and military leaders have tried to fill it—is what Military Service and American Democracy is all about. William Taylor chronicles and analyzes the long and ever-changing history of that often contentious and controversial effort, from the initiation of America's first peacetime draft just before our entry into World War II up to present-day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. A history that runs from the selective service era of 1940–1973 through the era of the All-Volunteer Force of 1973 to the present, his book details the many personnel policies that have shaped, controlled, and defined American military service over the last eight decades. Exploring the individual and group identities excluded from official personnel policy over time—African Americans, women, and gays among others—Taylor shows how military service has been an arena of contested citizenship, one in which American values have been tested, questioned, and ultimately redefined. Yet, we see how this process has resulted in greater inclusiveness and expanded opportunities in military service while encouraging and shaping similar changes in broader society. In the distinction between compulsory and voluntary military service, Taylor also examines the dichotomy between national security and individual liberty—two competing ideals that have existed in constant tension throughout the history of American democracy.

Author: George William Nasmyth
Publisher:
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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Author: George William Nasmyth
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359284952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Post-war Military Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Post-war Military Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: Jennings Cropper Wise
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company [c1917]
ISBN:
Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Post-war Military Policy
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Author: George Gordon Coulton
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: George Q. Flynn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313074194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Finding the manpower to defend democracy has been a recurring problem. Russell Weigley writes: The historic preoccupation of the Army's thought in peacetime has been the manpower question: how, in an unmilitary nation, to muster adequate numbers of capable soldiers quickly should war occur. When the nature of modern warfare made an all-volunteer army inadequate, the major Western democracies confronted the dilemma of involuntary military service in a free society. The core of this manuscript concerns methods by which France, Great Britain, and the United States solved the problem and why some solutions were more lasting and effective than others. Flynn challenges conventional wisdom that suggests that conscription was inefficient and that it promoted inequality of sacrifice. Sharing similar but not identical diplomatic outlooks, the three countries discussed here were allies in world wars and in the Cold War, and they also confronted the problem of using conscripts to defend colonial interests in an age of decolonization. These societies rest upon democratic principles, and operating a draft in a democracy raises several unique problems. A particular tension develops as a result of adopting forced military service in a polity based on concepts of individual rights and freedoms. Despite the protest and inconsistencies, the criticism and waste, Flynn reveals that conscription served the three Western democracies well in an historical context, proving effective in gathering fighting men and allowing a flexibility to cope and change as problems arose.