Citizens and Soldiers : : The Dilemmas of Military Service / / Eliot A. Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cohen, Eliot A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Cohen, Eliot A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501733772; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501733772
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eliot A. Cohen.

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.