Eliot A. Cohen
Citizens and Soldiers: The Dilemmas of Military Service.
Cornell University Press, 1990. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Cornell Paperbacks 0801497191 227 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"The broad purpose of this book is to provide a context for America's current military manpower debate, to analyze the nature of our difficulties and the extent to which we can master them. Why has the United States, unlike every other twentieth-century Great Power and World Power, failed to settle on a durable system of peacetime military service? To answer these questions I must ask two others: How and with what results has the United States raised its military forces, under what constraints of domestic politics and exigencies of war? What alternative methods have other countries adopted, how well did they work, and could they be tried here?" (Opening paragraph of author's introduction)