* Prologue * Individual Freedom and the Obligations of Citizenship * Repairing the Army * The Army in the Marketplace * Race, "Quality," and the Hollow Army *"If you like Ms., you'll love pvt." * The All-Recruited Army * The Army as Social Good * The Warrior Ethos * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
Compact, comprehensive, and empathetic, America's Army provides a much-needed account of the all-volunteer army, from its difficult birth after Vietnam down to its challenging present. An important story exceedingly well told. -- Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War Every American should read Beth Bailey's excellent book on America's Army. It brilliantly charts how the huge shift away from the draft came to be and what we might expect in the future. -- The Honorable Patricia Schroeder, Former Congresswoman, Colorado America's Army will be indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern army works and how this democracy 'provides for the common defense.' -- Colonel Matthew Moten, Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point and author of The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession An excellent history on a very complicated and controversial topic that deals with such emotional subjects as race, the role of women, and the Army's commitment to combat. -- Brian McAllister Linn, Professor of History, Texas A and M University The powerful and remarkable story of how the All-Volunteer Force confronted the challenges surrounding race, gender, sexuality and citizenship in creating today's American Army. -- Michael Sherry, author of In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s America's Army will become a major addition to the history of the post-Vietnam armed forces. -- Ronald Spector, Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University
Beth Bailey is Foundation Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas.
Compact, comprehensive, and empathetic, America's Army provides a
much-needed account of the all-volunteer army, from its difficult
birth after Vietnam down to its challenging present. An important
story exceedingly well told.
*Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism: How
Americans Are Seduced by War*
Every American should read Beth Bailey's excellent book on
America's Army. It brilliantly charts how the huge shift away from
the draft came to be and what we might expect in the future.
*The Honorable Patricia Schroeder, Former Congresswoman,
Colorado*
America's Army will be indispensable reading for anyone who wants
to understand how the modern army works and how this democracy
'provides for the common defense.'
*Colonel Matthew Moten, Professor, United States Military Academy
at West Point and author of The Delafield Commission and the
American Military Profession*
An excellent history on a very complicated and controversial topic
that deals with such emotional subjects as race, the role of women,
and the Army's commitment to combat.
*Brian McAllister Linn, Professor of History, Texas A and M
University*
The powerful and remarkable story of how the All-Volunteer Force
confronted the challenges surrounding race, gender, sexuality and
citizenship in creating today's American Army.
*Michael Sherry, author of In the Shadow of War: The United
States Since the 1930s*
America's Army will become a major addition to the history of the
post-Vietnam armed forces.
*Ronald Spector, Professor of History and International Affairs,
The George Washington University*
Beth Bailey has written an accessible and informative history of
the [All-Volunteer Force]. It's a valuable reference work for
anyone interested in the armed forces. The book has added value
today, given the strain under which the military has found itself
in fighting lengthy insurgencies in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
*Washington Times*
This excellent analytical history is particularly timely. It
thoroughly surveys the volunteer force's emergence from the
so-called "hollow army" over the past decades, and it analyzes such
specific issues as the effect on gender roles of the greater number
of women in service, the effect on career patterns due to the
absence of a draft, and how to instill the warrior ethos, assuming
that that is still necessary in an age of high-tech combat. The
ultimate questions raised are whether the all-volunteer force
doesn't sacrifice civic responsibility to individual liberty and
what the answer to that question implies. Intensely serious,
painstakingly thorough, and deserving addition to collections
concerned with military and current affairs.
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