America's Army
Subtitle: making the all-volunteer force
By: Beth Bailey.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780674035362
Subjects: United States. -- Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc; Military service, Voluntary -- United States
Description: " ... the story of the all-volunteer force, from the draft protests and policy proposals of the 1960s through the Iraq War"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Individual freedom and the obligations of citizenship; title: Repairing the Army; title: The Army in the marketplace; title: Race, "quality," and the hollow Army; title: "If you like Ms., you'll love Pvt."; title: The all-recruited Army; title: The Army as social good; title: The warrior ethos.