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The "Casualty Issue" in American Military Practice: The Impact of World War I. By Evan Andrew Huelfer. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. xviii, 244 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-275-97760-9.)
The historian and serving United States Army officer Evan Andrew Huelfer examines what he calls the "casualty issue" and its impact on the United States Army and the nation at large in the years between the world wars. Today's American public will not accept massive wartime casualties, an attitude generally perceived to be part of the legacy of the Vietnam War. Huelfer argues, however, that this aversion to casualties can be traced to World War I, in which doughboys suffered 350,000 casualties, mostly in the last few months of the war. . . .
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