The increasing gap between words and deeds: teaching public affairs at the colleges of the army from academic year 1947 through academic year 1989
Journal: K-State Research Exchange (Kansas State University)
Year: 2014

After the Second World War, the leaders of the Department of the Army (DA) worked to inform those in the service that they had a duty to help the American people understand what the Army was doing to provide security for the nation.Their goal was for the public to have, at a minimum, the same amount of understanding of the Army as it had during World War II.To achieve this goal they believed that the officer corps had to be convinced that explaining to the public what the service was doing was i