{"id":730,"date":"2021-03-30T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/?page_id=730"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:05:38","slug":"all-volunteer-force","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/course-syllabus\/all-volunteer-force\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Volunteer Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There is no doubt that the volunteer force took in few Americans than the military of the draft era, leaving only a small minority of Americans with any direct experience with or understanding of the military.\u00a0 It was significant that the military became more working class, with a virtually absent middle class, especially an absent white middle class.\u00a0 The military-civilian gap was a gap of class, and to some degree race, in which war and the armed forces had become largely a working-class affair.”\u00a0 –Jennifer Mittelstadt,\u00a0AT WAR, <\/em>p. 102<\/p>\n

From Conscription to Selective Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Uncle<\/a>

1917 Recruiting Poster<\/p><\/div>\n

Cold War Era Military Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"JFK\"<\/a>

President Kennedy and Secretary McNamara<\/p><\/div>\n

After 1973<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Powell\"<\/a>

Gen. Powell and President Clinton, 1993<\/p><\/div>\n

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cartoon\"<\/a>

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” cartoon by Pat Oliphant (1993)<\/p><\/div>\n

Discussion Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

How much has American society and the US military changed since 1993?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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