| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War. By Christopher S. DeRosa. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi, 328 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1734-8.)
To carry out its mission of defending the nation, the army recruits, organizes, trains, and equips soldiers to conduct sustained combat and stability operations on land. Attracting civilians, turning civilians into soldiers, and keeping soldiers, is all done by forging teams made up of diverse individuals and imbuing them with the will to fight, if they are called on to do so. The army does this, in part, through its information channels. Christopher S. DeRosa's book Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War chronicles some of those channels. The book is very well researched, rich with detail and supporting anecdotes, and, for the most part, evenhanded.	1
The book is about managing and molding soldiers' opinions of themselves and their country between 1940 and 1973. The author calls it a history of the army's formal political indoctrination, but that sounds grander than it really is. Actually, it is an examination of the agencies in the army that were charged with providing information to soldiers and leaders.	. . .

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