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Product Description: Which citizens have fought America's wars? Which ones should fight in the future, and how should they be recruited? Should military or other national service be an obligation for every citizen? David Segal's probing look at the complex issues behind these questions tells us much about the changing manpower needs of our armed forces and about the evolution of civil-military relations in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780700603916 | Univ Pr of Kansas, March 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Examining citizenship and military manpower policy in the United States, this book reviews pertinent American history and investigates such issues as voluntarism versus conscription, forces-in-being versus mobilisation, social welfare versus military readiness, and big wars versus small.

Paperback:

9780700605491 | Reissue edition (Univ Pr of Kansas, August 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Which citizens have fought America's wars?

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Product Description: Individual liberty is ingrained in American culture. Yet, in contrast to this cherished ideal, American men were inducted into military service under a system that flourished for more than twenty years before its rationalization was seriously questioned by more than a small minority of citizens...read more

Hardcover:

9780700605866 | Univ Pr of Kansas, June 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A study of an institution held in political and public favour during two wars before dying out under a barrage of protest during a third.

Paperback:

9780700611058 | Univ Pr of Kansas, December 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Individual liberty is ingrained in American culture.

Hardcover:

9781573091640 | Intl Scholars Pubns, November 1, 1997, cover price $79.00

Paperback:

9781573091633 | Intl Scholars Pubns, June 1, 1997, cover price $58.00

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