... administration and broadly supported its efforts to weaken the Confederacy through conscription, emancipation, and "hard war." This campaign elicited a backlash from Democratic men at home and in the ranks, but the publication of such a vehement political stance from the army throughout Northern newspapers...

... concludes by considering how literature’s figurative aspects engage with the figurative reframing of real victims that occurs in war. Abraham and Isaac ethical suspension Moloch child sacrifice race substitution atavism animal sacrifice victimhood conscription In the Old Testament book of Genesis...

...The chapter asks whether war once again has become the business of the people or whether it is best left to supposedly more effective professionals. With the replacement of conscript forces by professionals across Europe, the question seemed settled. However, an analysis of the role of the people...

... abdicate an essential responsibility when it employs PMSCs? Is the use of PMSCs morally preferable to the alternatives, such as an all-volunteer force and a conscripted army? What are the effects of treating military services as a commodity for the governing rules of the international system? Overall...

...This chapter is about the conscription of organs. It tests the earlier conclusions about rights over our bodies against the view that organs should be compulsorily reallocated to people whose organs have failed. Although conscription from the living should not be taken seriously, conscription from...

... they were reluctant to abandon. Requisitioning, labour conscription, forced loans, surtaxes and coinage debasement were all required to rebuild a well-fed professional army of French, foreign Italian and local men, bolstered by militia contingents. These were hard-pressed to fend off Spanish, Neapolitan...

... and that the post-rebellion executions triggered the national uprising. Irish socialist republican Peadar OʼDonnell disputed this view and suggested that it was the threat of conscription that forced the people into rebellion. Buchan J Easter rebellion 1916 Northern Ireland Ulster OʼDonnell P OʼMalley E Sinn...

... exclusively of long-service volunteers. During the 1920s and early 1930s such a force appeared to suit Britain’s limited military needs but by the spring of 1939 the European scene had darkened to the point where for the first time peacetime conscription became a serious possibility. Under pressure from...

... effectiveness military sociology mercenaries officers conscription military career military education In the previous chapter I made the point that it is important to look at the regular military as a part of the broader security sector. In this chapter, I take a further step: in order to truly...

... The Construction Battalion Polyakov Yury Less Than Four Months to Go Rogozhkin Aleksandr Boris Frumin Eduard Topol Lindsay Anderson reception USSR military conscription Soviet army military censorship banned film In terms of Lenfilm’s reputation with government and Party regulatory bodies, Boris...

... relations Civil military relations in Singapore Singapore Armed Forces modernization and military military conscription military and ideology The SAF is arguably ‘the most impressive military force in contemporary Southeast Asia’ ( Huxley, 2000 , p 249). Yet, the threat of military intervention...

...This chapter highlights the story of Gediminas Šiaurys, who was conscripted into the Soviet army in 1978 before the war in Afghanistan began. The Soviet army invaded Afghanistan in the final days of December 1979. During the first week of January 1980, Šiaurys was deployed to Kunduz. As a sergeant...

...This chapter focuses on the story of Jonas Vaitkūnas, who attended school in Vilnius to be an athletic coach; his studies postponed his military conscription until 1978. After six months of training in Rukla, Lithuania, Vaitkūnas deployed to Tashkent for intense mountain climbing and survival...

...This chapter highlights the story of Juozas Balkus, who was raised with his sister in an orphanage after the death of their parents and grandfather. Balkus later spent time in boarding school in the Lithuanian city of Trakai. He was conscripted into the Soviet army in 1980, at the beginning...

..., and pneumonia. The chapter also looks at the impact of conscription on the plain folk's sense of unity that existed on the home front during the war's first year. Finally, it discusses how the bloody battles at Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg changed the way Confederate soldiers...

... imprisonment and internment in Britain. Attention is then given to re-organization efforts and gun-smuggling endeavours following their liberation in 1917. Finally, the plot to assassinate British politicians in London so as to prevent the implementation of conscription in Ireland is studied. Bolton Cardiff...

...This proposes a structure for a labour history of rank and file British professional soldiers, including a brief historiography of relevant research and publication. It defines types of nineteenth century military service, though argues that quasi-conscription often supplemented voluntary...

... white feathers as symbols of cowardice to any young man not in uniform. The issue of conscription challenged long-standing ideas of a citizen’s autonomy from the state. That being said, by 1916 there was a consensus emerging among Britons that the government ought to compel men for reasons of equity...

...2020 “1862” covers the conscription of Confederate soldiers and the emergence of Robert E. Lee, who assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee won many significant battles against larger Union armies. Both sides experienced heavy losses, in part due to new, deadlier weapons. Soldiers...

... to conscription as well as how volunteers were needed to be recruited in the army. Abrams Creighton Cold War conscription Red Army Soviet Union Starry Donn A United States Army Viet Cong Vietnam War Westmoreland William C Forsythe George Kerwin Walter T “Dutch” Matthews Lloyd McNamara Robert S Miles...