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Article: Blogging the long war: Bill Roggio wants to be your source for conflict coverage.(blog coverage of the United States' Iraq war)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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For much of the twentieth century, Americans co-existed with the country's armed forces in a way we don't anymore. In the 1940s and '50s, millions of Americans served in the fight against imperial Japan and Hitler's Germany, as well as Kim Il Sung's North Korea and its Chinese allies; in the sixties, millions of boomers wore the uniform in the jungles of Vietnam or on large bases in Europe, Asia, and in the States. Service, or the possibility of service, was a way of life.
After the draft was abolished in the 1970s, the military increasingly became an institution apart from society at large, a process that was hastened by the "peace dividend" that followed the ...