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Joe Labolito, Temple University

The Army’s role is not limited to military matters

Beth Bailey on her book America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force


The very creation of the all-volunteer force speaks volumes about American struggles to balance its core values of liberty and equality. And some of the most important and most difficult questions we face as a nation seem to require a basic understanding of America’s military. If we want to understand struggles for social justice and questions of equality, we can’t ignore the role that the military has played—and continues to play—in these struggles. If we want to understand the meaning of citizenship, we have to think more about the ways that the rights and obligations of citizenship have been negotiated around questions of military service.

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