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Rough Draft
Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance
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ISBN-13:
9781501739385
Veröffentl:
2019
Seiten:
276
Autor:
Amy J. Rutenberg
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life.
AcknowledgmentsSelective Service Classification Chart (1951-1973)Introduction1. "Digging for Deferments": World War II, 1940-19452. "To Rub Smooth the Sharp Edges": Universal Military Training, 1943-19513. "Really First-Class Men": The Early Cold War, 1948-19534. "A Draft-Dodging Business": Manpower Channeling, 1955-19655. "The Most Important Human Salvage Operation in the History of our Country": The War on Poverty, 1961-19696. "Choice or Chance": The Vietname War, 1965-1973ConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex
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