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10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military

Elizabeth Weill-greenberg - 2006 - Political Science - Limited preview
So you're walking out of school and parked at the gate is a new, bright red Ford Mustang with a hulk of a man in the front seat. He's sporting a razor cut and wraparound shades. Before you can pass he's out of the car and blocking your path ...

Military Recruiting in High Schools: From School Space to Marketplace

Brian W. Lagotte - 2016 - Education - Limited preview
This book focuses exclusively on specific education policy instead of general military recruiting in high schools. "When the George W. Bush administration passed its landmark education legislation in 2001, dubbed the No Child Left Behind Act ...

Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools

Kenneth Saltman, David A. Gabbard - 2010 - Education - Limited preview
The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced. Since ...

Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent

Marjorie Cohn, Kathleen Gilberd - 2009 - Law - Limited preview
Lessons from veterans and active duty service members in opposition to US interventionist military policy Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and ...

War and Modernity: Studies in the History of Vilolence in the 20th Century

Hans Joas - 2003 - Social Science - No preview available
Written by one of Europe's leading social theorists, this book takes up the claims of modernity and confronts them with a stark reality: the ongoing proliferation of war. How can contemporary social and political thought come to terms with this ...

The New American Militarism:How Americans Are Seduced by War: How Americans ...

Andrew J. Bacevich - 2005 - Political Science - No preview available
In this provocative new book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology--of unprecedented military might wed to a ...

Strategic Terror: The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment

Beau Grosscup - 2006 - History - Limited preview
'Beau Grosscup shows that aerial bombardment, which was used many years ago as a means of terrorizing native populations in Africa and the Middle East, has become the primary form of terrorism in more recent decades. As he indicates, 'strategic ...

Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State

David H. Price - 2011 - History - No preview available
The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counter insurgency in the US. Price here documents how anthropological knowledge and methods are ...

A Handbook of Military Conscription and Composition the World Over

Rita J. Simon, Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim - 2011 - Social Science - Limited preview
This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main events that led to the choice of conscription or professional military forces in the ...

The Wisdom of Daughters: Two Decades of the Voice of Christian Feminism

Reta Halteman Finger, Kari Sandhaas - 2004 - Religion - No preview available
A collection of 80 original articles from the Daughters Of Sarah magazine, revealing the roots and evolution of feminist Christian thought.