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Conscription and Volunteerism
Conscription as a means to fill an army's ranks offers many advantages. Because men are compelled to serve, the state does not need to offer financial incentives to draw them into military service. Conscription can therefore provide a large army much ...
- Art, Culture, and Memory
- “Star-Spangled Banner, The”
- Apocalypse Now
- Beetle Bailey
- Born on the Fourth of July
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- Deer Hunter, The
- Farewell to Arms, A
- From Here to Eternity
- Hiroshima
- M*A*S*H
- Naked and the Dead, The
- Platoon
- Red Badge of Courage
- Twelve O’ Clock High
- WarGames
- Ali, Muhammad
- Atrocity and Captivity Narratives
- Baby Boom
- Best Years of Our Lives, The
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Bridges at Toko-Ri, The
- Caine Mutiny
- Captain Marvel Comic Books
- Dr. Strangelove
- Enola Gay Controversy
- Film and War
- Gun Ownership
- Hunt for Red October, The
- Language and War
- Literature and War
- Mauldin, Bill
- Media and War
- Memorial Day
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- Memory and War
- Military Reenactments
- Murphy, Audie
- Music and War
- Musical Theater and War
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- Niles, John Jacob
- Radio in World War II
- Rambo
- Sad Sack, The
- Saving Private Ryan
- Seven Days in May
- Sport and War
- Television and War
- Theater and War
- Victory Gardens
- Visual Arts and War
- War Brides
- Wargaming
- Wayne, John
- Economics and Labor
- Aerospace Industry
- Arms Trade
- Baby Boom
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Conscription and Volunteerism
- Economy and War
- Filibustering
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- Impressment
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- Marshall Plan
- Military–Industrial Complex
- Munitions Industry
- National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
- New York City Anti-Draft Riots
- Rationing in Wartime
- Revolutionary War Food Riots
- War Industries Board
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- War Profiteering
- Women in the Workforce: World War I and World War II
- Education
- Environment, Health, and Medicine
- Gender
- Barton, Clara
- Camp Followers
- Commission on Training Camp Activities
- Families, Military
- Gays and Lesbians in the Military
- Mahan, Dennis Hart
- Nurses, Military
- Pinups
- Rosie the Riveter
- Sampson, Deborah
- Sexual Abuse and Harassment
- Stratton, Dorothy C.
- Tailhook Convention
- Victory Gardens
- War Brides
- Women in the Military
- Women in the Workforce in World War I and World War II
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Media and Journalism
- Enola Gay Controversy
- Brady, Mathew B.
- Censorship and the Military
- CNN
- Combat-Zone Photography
- Committee on Public Information
- Frontline Reporting
- Greeley, Horace
- Mauldin, Bill
- Media and War
- Militant Liberty
- My Lai Massacre
- Newsreels
- Office of Censorship
- Office of War Information
- Pentagon Papers
- Political Cartoons
- Propaganda and Psychological Operations
- Pyle, Ernie
- Radio Free Europe
- Radio in World War II
- Recruiting Advertisements
- Television and War
- Voice of America
- Law and Justice
- United States v. Seeger and Welsh v. United States
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Andersonville
- Articles of War
- Court of Military Appeals
- Customs of War
- Desertion
- Doolittle Board
- Draft Evasion and Resistance
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Executive Order 8802
- Fort Pillow Massacre
- General Orders, No. 100
- Geneva and Hague Conventions
- Genocide
- Impressment
- Just War Theory
- My Lai Massacre
- Posse Comitatus Act
- Prisoners of War
- Quantrill's Raiders
- Tiger Force Recon Scandal
- Uniform Code of Military Justice
- People-Military Leaders and Figures
- Arnold, Henry Harley
- Brant, Joseph and Margaret “Molly” Brant
- Butler, Smedley Darlington
- Chief Joseph
- Crazy Horse
- Custer, George Armstrong
- Davis, Jefferson
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford
- Geronimo
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Halsey, William F., Jr.
- Hitchcock, Ethan Allen
- Jones, John Paul
- Lee, Robert E.
- LeMay, Curtis Emerson
- Lynch, Jessica
- MacArthur, Douglas
- Mahan, Alfred Thayer
- Marshall, George Catlett
- Mitchell, William “Billy”
- Murphy, Audie
- Nimitz, Chester William
- Osceola
- Patton, George
- Pershing, John Joseph
- Pontiac
- Powell, Colin
- Rickover, Hyman
- Ridgway, Matthew Bunker
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Sampson, Deborah
- Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
- Scott, Winfield
- Sheridan, Philip H.
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Spaatz, Carl
- Stratton, Dorothy C.
- Tecumseh
- York, Alvin Cullum
- Planning, Strategy, and Command and Control
- Aerial Bombardment
- All Volunteer Force
- Berlin Crises
- Civil Defense
- Civil–Military Relations
- Coastal Patrolling
- Colonial Militia Systems
- Continental Army
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Desertion
- European Military Culture, Influence of
- Goldwater–Nichols Act
- Homeland Security
- Impressment
- Intelligence Gathering in War
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Marine Corps
- McNamara, Robert S.
- Merchant Marine
- Militarization and Militarism
- Military Bases
- Militia Groups
- National Guard
- National Security Council Memorandum-68
- National War College
- Nitze, Paul Henry
- Nuclear Strategy
- Prisoners of War
- Private Military Contractors
- Public Opinion and Policy in Wartime
- Rangers
- Reconstruction
- Replacement Depots
- Rumsfeld, Donald
- Selective Service System
- Strategic Air Command
- Systems Analysis
- Think Tanks
- War Powers Resolution
- Washington, George
- Weinberger–Powell Doctrine
- Politics
- Enola Gay Controversy
- Ali, Muhammad
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Antiwar Movements
- Civil–Military Relations
- Draft Evasion and Resistance
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Filibustering
- Geneva and Hague Conventions
- Genocide
- Goldwater–Nichols Act
- Holocaust, U.S. Response to
- Impressment
- Isolationism
- Jackson, Andrew
- Lincoln, Abraham
- McKinley, William
- McNamara, Robert S.
- My Lai Massacre
- Nitze, Paul Henry
- Pacifism
- Polk, James K.
- Posse Comitatus Act
- Powell, Colin
- Prisoners of War
- Public Opinion and Policy in Wartime
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Rumsfeld, Donald
- Truman, Harry S.
- Veteran Status and Electability
- War Powers Resolution
- Washington, George
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Race and Ethnicity
- 442nd Regimental Combat Team of Nisei
- 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- African Americans in the Military
- Ali, Muhammad
- Atrocity and Captivity Narratives
- Brownsville Riot
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Continental Army, Foreign Officers in
- Davis, Benjamin O. Sr.
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Executive Order 9981
- Fighting 69th
- Foreign Officers in the Continental Army
- German and Italian Americans, Internment of
- Great Migration
- Harlem Hellfighters
- Hastie, William Henry
- Indian Army Scouts
- Japanese Americans, Internment of
- Latinos in the Military
- Native Americans in Colonial Wars and the Revolutionary War
- Native Americans in the Military
- Port Chicago Mutiny
- Powell, Colin
- Race Riots
- Racial Integration of the Armed Forces
- Randolph, A. Philip
- Schuyler, George
- Shaw, Robert Gould
- Young, Charles
- Zoot Suit Riot
- Religion
- Science and Technology
- Aerospace Industry
- Armored Vehicles
- Arms Trade
- Computer Technology and Warfare
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Manhattan Project
- Munitions Industry
- National Space Program
- National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert
- Satellite Technology
- Technology and Revolutionary Changes in Military Affairs
- Ultra and Enigma
- Soldiering and Veterans’ Affairs
- American Legion
- American Veterans Committee
- AMVETS
- Bonus March
- Combat, Effects of
- Disabled American Veterans
- GI Bills
- Grand Army of the Republic
- Memory and War
- Psychiatric Disorders, Combat Related
- Revolutionary War Pensions
- Society of the Cincinnati
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Veterans Administration
- Veterans Day
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Vietnam Veterans against the War
- Vietnam Veterans of America
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- Boxer Rebellion
- Central America and the Caribbean, Interventions in
- Civil War
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- Peacekeeping Operations
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- Revolutionary War
- Russia U.S. Intervention in
- Spanish–American War
- Vietnam War
- War of 1812
- War on Terrorism
- World War I
- World War II
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