Richard Moser

The New Winter Soldiers

GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Richard Moser uses interviews and personal stories of Vietnam veterans to offer a fundamentally new interpretation of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement. Although the Vietnam War was the most important conflict of recent American history, its decisive battle was not fought in the jungles of Vietnam, or even in the streets of the United States, but rather in the hearts and minds of American soldiers. To a degree unprecedented in American history, soldiers and veterans acted to oppose the very war they waged. Tens of thousands of soldiers and veterans engaged in desperate conflicts with their superiors and opposed the war through peaceful protest, creating a mass movement of dissident organizations and underground newspapers. Moser shows how the antiwar soldiers lived out the long tradition of the citizen-soldier first created in the American Revolution and Civil War. Unlike those great upheavals of the past, the Vietnam War offered no way to fulfill the citizen-soldier's struggle for freedom and justice. Rather than abandoning such ideals, however, tens of thousands abandoned the war effort and instead fulfilled their heroic expectations in the movements for peace and justice. According to Moser, this transformation of warriors into peacemakers is the most important recent development of our military culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780813522425
• ISBN-10: 0813522420
• Artikelnr.: 21401259

Autorenporträt

Moser, Richard

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction 
1 Happy Veteran's Day
2 The Soldier Ideal and American Culture: The Citizen-Soldier, the Fighter,
and the Fifties
3 GI Dissent and War Resistance in Vietnam
4 The GI Movement in the United States
5 The Veterans' Antiwar Movement
6 Military Resistance as a Social Movement
7 The Transformation of the Citizen-Soldier: War and Reconstruction
Notes
Sources
Index