Arms and The University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students (1971) By Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili
 
Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the 'citizen soldier'. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and the University probes various dimensions of this alienation, as well as recent efforts to restore a closer relationship between the military and the university. Through theoretical and empirical analysis, Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili show how a military presence on campus in the form of ROTC (including a case study of ROTC's return to Columbia and Harvard universities), military history and national security studies can enhance the civic and liberal education of non-military students, and in the process help to bridge the civil-military gap.
 
Develops a theory of liberal and civic education and applies it with surveys of military and non-military students as well as dozens of interviews with key players at major universities such as Harvard, UW-Madison and Columbia
Provides a unique history of the Reserve Officer Training Corps in the Ivy League and elsewhere, including the rebellions against the program in the late 1960s and the major efforts in recent years to restore ROTC to campuses that effectively banned it back then
Provides a unique discussion of the plights and status of military history and security studies as fields of inquiry, as well as a theory of civic and liberal education that is linked to these scholarly endeavors
 
Soft Cover
441 Pages
In Good Condition