Political Indoctrination in the U.s. Army From World War II to the - Vietnam Wa

Informationen zum Autor Christopher S. DeRosa is an assistant professor of history at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Klappentext A study of the indoctrination of the U. S. Army from World War II to Vietnam Zusammenfassung For more than three decades! the US Army's ""Troop Information"" program used films! radio programs! pamphlets! and lectures to stir patriotism and spark contempt for the enemy. Christopher S. DeRosa examines soldiers' formal political indoctrination! focusing on the political training of draftees and short-term volunteers from 1940 to 1973. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Anxious to Work Bodily Destruction: Political Indoctrination in World War II; 2. The Morale and Whatnot of the Army: Indoctrination Institutionalized in the Postwar Army; 3. OAFIE's Voice: Political Indoctrination in the Korean War; 4. An Arsenal of Democracy: The Armed Forces' Cold War Information Materials; 5. Morale and the Muzzle: The Political Indoctrination Program Besieged; 6. Information's Impossible War: Political Indoctrination in the Vietnam War Epilogue: Retreat from Political Indoctrination

Product details

• Authors: Christopher S DeRosa, Christopher S. Derosa
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2009
• EAN: 9780803224865
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-2486-5
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Studies in War, Society, and t; Studies in War, Society, and the Military; Studies in War, Society, and the Military; Studies in War, Society, and t
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education