Военная история / Citizen and Soldier: A Sourcebook on Military Service and National Defense from Colonial America to the Present

Издательство: Routledge
Автор: Henry C. Dethloff, Gerald E. Shenk
Название: Citizen and Soldier: A Sourcebook on Military Service and National Defense from Colonial America to the Present
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2011
Количество страниц: 248
ISBN: 978-0-203-84648-6
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 11 мб

Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the citizenship of this country since 1776. Yet, since the end of World War II United States forces have been caught up in many long term military engagements, and the military aspect of citizenship has become an increasingly marginalized one in a world where only a minority of citizens even vote.