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Elvis's army : Cold War GIs and the atomic battlefield /

What kind of army wants the king of rock-n-roll? Elvis's Army explores the great military and social experiment that was the Cold War atomic army. Militarily, the US Army transformed for the revolution in warfare initiated by the nuclear weapons. Traumatized by Cold War reductions and Korea, it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linn, Brian McAllister (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
United States. > Army > History > 20th century.
United States. > Army > Reorganization > History > 20th century.
Presley, Elvis, > 1935-1977 > Career in the military.
Sociology, Military > United States > History > 20th century.
Draft > Social aspects > United States.
Cold War.

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