The millennial generation and national defense : attitudes of future military and civilian leaders /
Captures the views, values, and attitudes of today's youth -- the Millennial generation -- towards the military, war, national defence and foreign policy matters. Surveying over five thousand American college students, ROTC cadets, and military academy cadets from eighteen states across ten yea...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Millennials on the rise? Who are the Millennials?
- Characteristics of Millennials
- Millennials and the military
- Military academies and Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)
- Civil-military gap?
- Studying Millennials' perspectives on the military
- the BASS
- 2. Millennials' attitudes toward military service. Military service as civic engagement
- Perceptions of the American military
- Willingness to serve
- National service
- Conclusions
- 3. Millennials' attitudes on the US Armed Forces. Primary role of the military in society
- International roles of the military
- Threats to American security
- Conclusions
- 4. Millennials and wars : Iraq and Afghanistan. Academic approaches to war support
- War support
- Conclusions
- 5. Millennials and diversity in the Armed Forces. Women in military service
- Approval of women serving in military jobs
- Knowledge of the role of women in the military
- Views of career opportunities in the military
- Gays and lesbians in the US military
- Conclusions
- 6. Conclusion. The future of national defense from Millennials' perspectives
- The military institution and defense today
- The future of the military institution.