"we are at war" prescribes very different actions based on whether you have five hundred thousand veterans with an imminent willingness to die at your command or not
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the thing everybody ignores about the revolutionary half-century between World War I and the beginning of the Cold War is that at the beginning of the period, every young man was familiar with the use of weapons and at the end of the period, every old man was
We have a large swath of younger men who spent their teens and twenties playing Call of Duty, smoking weed, and “totally going to become a Navy SEAL” based on popular podcasts they listened to while life passed them by. Does that count for anything?
An interesting thesis for a post-grad would explore the NRA shifting from an organization largely dominated by American Sportsmen types to an industry lobbying group coinciding with the end of the draft in the US.
Start with Ackerman McQueen, the advertising agency that oversaw the shift (I worked there just out of college) … from TV shows, to writing speeches for candidates, to in-school events.
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