Making Citizen-Soldiers : ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service / Michael S. Neiberg.
2009
U428.5 .N45 2000
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Title
Making Citizen-Soldiers : ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service / Michael S. Neiberg.
Author
Neiberg, Michael S., author.
ISBN
9780674041387
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (288 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674041387 doi
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U428.5 .N45 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
355.2/232/071173
Summary
This book examines the Reserve Officers Training Corps program as a distinctively American expression of the social, cultural, and political meanings of military service. Since 1950, ROTC has produced nearly two out of three American active duty officers, yet there has been no comprehensive scholarly look at civilian officer education programs in nearly forty years. While most modern military systems educate and train junior officers at insular academies like West Point, only the United States has relied heavily on the active cooperation of its civilian colleges. Michael Neiberg argues that the creation of officer education programs on civilian campuses emanates from a traditional American belief (which he traces to the colonial period) in the active participation of civilians in military affairs. Although this ideology changed shape through the twentieth century, it never disappeared. During the Cold War military buildup, ROTC came to fill two roles: it provided the military with large numbers of well-educated officers, and it provided the nation with a military comprised of citizen-soldiers. Even during the Vietnam era, officers, university administrators, and most students understood ROTC's dual role. The Vietnam War thus led to reform, not abandonment, of ROTC. Mining diverse sources, including military and university archives, Making Citizen-Soldiers provides an in-depth look at an important, but often overlooked, connection between the civilian and military spheres.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Tables
Introduction
1 ROTC and the American Military Tradition
2 A Favored Position on Campus: The Military and Higher Education in the Cold War Era, 1950-1964
3 The Origins of Postwar Dissatisfaction
4 The ROTC Vitalization Act, 1964-1968
5 ROTC from Tet to the All-Volunteer Force
6 ROTC in the Era of the All-Volunteer Force, 1972-1980
7 A New Academic Program: ROTC, 1972-1980
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Primary Sources
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Tables
Introduction
1 ROTC and the American Military Tradition
2 A Favored Position on Campus: The Military and Higher Education in the Cold War Era, 1950-1964
3 The Origins of Postwar Dissatisfaction
4 The ROTC Vitalization Act, 1964-1968
5 ROTC from Tet to the All-Volunteer Force
6 ROTC in the Era of the All-Volunteer Force, 1972-1980
7 A New Academic Program: ROTC, 1972-1980
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Primary Sources
Index