One of the best articles I’ve read recently is Deborah Cowen’s Fighting for Freedom: The End of Conscription in the United States and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship. It’s a really tight, focused read on the relationship between the restructuring of welfare programs in the U.S. and the end of the draft/launch of an all-volunteer military. In addition to offering a great historical framing of citizenship and economics, it’s plenty relevant for the contemporary context of the soldier shortage in the occupation of Iraq. (Btw, counter-recruitment.org has great resources for counter-recruitment campaigns, and links to other such projects.)
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