Making Citizen-Soldiers
Subtitle: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: February 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674543126
Subjects: American history; Military life & institutions; United States; Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps; Military - United States; Military Organization And Administration; Military-Political Relationships; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; History; History - Military / War; Naval Reserve Officers Trainin; History: American; USA; Military Science; History / Military / United States; Army; Reserve Officers' Training Cor; United States; United States - 20th Century; Air Force ROTC; Army
Description: "This book examines the Reserve Officers Training Corps program as a distinctively American expression of the social, cultural, and political meanings of military service.".

"Most modern military systems educate and train junior officers at insular academies like West Point, but that of the United States has relied extensively on the active cooperation of its civilian colleges. Michael Neiberg argues that the creation of officer education programs on civilian campuses emanates from a traditional American belief (which he traces to the colonial period) in the active participation of civilians in military affairs."--BOOK JACKET.