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Recruiting, Drafting, and Enlisting - Two Sides of the Raising of Military Forces (Hardcover)
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Recruiting, Drafting, and Enlisting - Two Sides of the Raising of Military Forces (Hardcover)
Series: Military and Society
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These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions
in human history, the military, and the interactions of that
institution with the greater society. Military systems "serve"
nations; they may also "reflect" them. Soldiers are "enlisted";
they may also be said to "self-select." Military units have
"missions"; they also have "interests." In an older, more
traditional military history, while the second reflects a newer
approach. Although each statement in the pairs may be said to be
true, the former speak from the framework of the military sciences;
the latter, from the framework of the social and behavioral
sciences.
The military systems of our past differ from one another over time,
in political origins, size, missions, and technological and
tactical fashions, but to a great extent their historical
experiences have been more noticeably similar than they were
different. When we ask questions about the recruiting, training, or
motivating of military systems, or of those systems'
interactionswith civilian governments and with the greater society,
as do the essays in these five volumes of reading on "The Military
and Society" we are struck by the almost timeless patterns of
continuity and similarity of experience.
In each of these volumes approximately half of the essays selected
deal with the experience in the United States; the other half, with
the experiences of other states and times, enabling the reader to
engage in comparative analysis.
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