Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and
1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist
subculture within the U.S. armed services. These activists took the
position that individual GIs could best challenge their
subordination by working in concert with like-minded servicemen
through GI movement organizations whose behaviors and activities
were then publicized in these underground newspapers. In examining
this movement, Lewes focuses on their treatment of power and
authority within the armed forces and how this mirrored the wider
and more inclusive relations of power and authority in the United
States. He argues that this opposition among servicemen was the
primary motivation for the United States to withdraw from Vietnam.
This first book length study of GI-published underground newspapers
sheds light on the utility of alternative media for movements of
social change, and provides information on how these movements are
shaped by the environments in which they emerge. Lewes asserts that
one cannot understand GI opposition as an extension of the civilian
antiwar movement. Instead, it was the product of an embedded
environment, whose inhabitants had been drafted or had enlisted to
avoid the draft. They came from cities and small towns whose
populations were often polarized between those who wholeheartedly
supported the war and those who became progressively more critical
of the need for Americans to be involved in Vietnam.
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