Breach Of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers And Their Country - Plot & Excerpts
It entailed courting groups that demonstrated a particular propensity to enlist or had been notably underrepresented during the draft era. Prominent in the first category were African Americans. Prominent in the second were women. In both cases, the key to courtship lay in removing barriers to opportunity. In post-Vietnam America, the operative definition of equality emphasized leveling the playing field. Yet even in the 1960s, when it came to participation, promotion, and access to power, the army clung to rules, written and unwritten, that favored white males. The viability of the all-volunteer force depended at least in part on the army’s ability to create credible paths to career success for those who were not white and not male. “With the advent of the volunteer military,” the sociologist Charles Moskos wrote nearly thirty years ago, “the white middle-class soldier became something of an endangered species.”1 Into the breach created by his departure came the black working-class soldier and women of all colors.
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