Who Will Fight the Next War?: The Changing Face of the American Military

by Martin Binkin

Book Overview

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The Persian Gulf conflict was the first major combat test for U.S. military forces since the nation ended conscription two decades ago. As hundreds of thousands of American troops were dispatched to the Middle East, the nation realized, seemingly for the first time, that the composition of its armed forces was far removed from any that the nation had previously sent to war.

The deployment of unprecedented proportions of minorities and women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815709552
• ISBN13: 9780815709558
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"