LEADER 03891nam 22005775 450 001 9910822758303321 005 20210219205826.0 010 $a1-5017-3958-1 010 $a1-5017-3937-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501739378 035 $a(CKB)4100000009040494 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5851447 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002146646 035 $a(OCoLC)1122905473 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse75885 035 $a(DE-B1597)527478 035 $a(OCoLC)1073037383 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501739378 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009040494 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRough Draft $eCold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance /$fAmy J. Rutenberg 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 $a1-5017-3936-0 311 $a1-5017-3938-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tSelective Service Classification Chart (1951-1973) --$tIntroduction --$t1. "Digging for Deferments": World War II, 1940-1945 --$t2. "To Rub Smooth the Sharp Edges": Universal Military Training, 1943-1951 --$t3. "Really First-Class Men": The Early Cold War, 1948-1953 --$t4. "A Draft-Dodging Business": Manpower Channeling, 1955-1965 --$t5. "The Most Important Human Salvage Operation in the History of our Country": The War on Poverty, 1961-1969 --$t6. "Choice or Chance": The Vietnam War, 1965-1973 --$tConclusion --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aRough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life.As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain civilian roles-a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aManpower policy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDraft$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xArmed Forces$xRecruiting, enlistment, etc 610 $aMilitary service, the draft, selective service, masculinity, militarization, gender studies. 615 0$aManpower policy$xHistory 615 0$aDraft$xHistory 676 $a355.22363097309045 700 $aRutenberg$b Amy J.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01686773 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822758303321 996 $aRough Draft$94059796 997 $aUNINA