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Other authors / contributors: | Murtazashvili, Ilia, 1975-
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ISBN: | 9781139336321 1139336320 9780511844447 0511844441 9780521192323 0521192323 9780521156707 052115670X
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | "Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the citizen soldier. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and the University probes various dimensions of this alienation, as well recent efforts to restore a closer relationship between the military and the university. Through theoretical and empirical analysis, Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili show how a military presence on campus in the form of ROTC (including a case study of ROTC, ♯s̥ return to Columbia and Harvard universities), military history, and national security studies can enhance the civic and liberal education of non-military students, and in the process help to bridge the civil-military gap"--Provided by publisher.
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Other form: | Print version: Downs, Donald Alexander. Arms and the university. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521192323
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