Rough draft : Cold War military manpower policy and the origins of Vietnam-era draft resistance /
America's inequitable system of draft deferments during the Vietnam War was the direct outgrowth of military manpower policies designed to fight the Cold War at home.
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Digging for deferments : World War II, 1940-1945
- To rub smooth the sharp edges : universal military training, 1943-1951
- Really first-class men : the early Cold War, 1948-1953
- A draft-dodging business : manpower channeling, 1955-1965
- The most important human salvage operation in the history of our country : the War on Poverty, 1961-1969
- Choice or chance : the Vietnam War, 1965-1973.