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• Preface
• Africom's Dilemma: The 'Global War on Terrorism', 'Capacity Building, ' Humanitarianism, and the Future of U.S. Security Policy in Africa
• Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa
• Testimony before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives (July 23, 2008): Africom: Joined-Up Geographic Command or Federal Business Opportunity?
• Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs "Africom: Vision and Prospects"
• Africa Command, Testimony before the House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR), July 16, 2007
• Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, AFRICOM: Rationales, Roles, and Progress On the Eve of Operations
• Testimony before the House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR), July 23, 2008, James K. Bishop, Humanitarian Policy and Practice InterAction
• Statement of Mary C. Yates, Dept. of State Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, United States Africa Command and Michael A. Snodgrass, U.S. Air Force, United States Africa Command Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on 15, July 2008
• Index.
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The February 2007 decision to launch a new Department of Defense Unified Combatant Command for Africa (AFRICOM) has already been met with significant controversy both in the United States and abroad. AFRICOM's proponents claim that the new command accurately reflects Africa's growing strategic importance and an enlightened U.S. foreign policy focused on supporting "African solutions to African problems." Its critics allege that the command demonstrates a self-serving American policy focused on fighting terrorism, securing the Africa's burgeoning energy stocks, and countering Chinese influence. To overcome such misgivings, AFRICOM must demonstrate a commitment to programs mutually beneficial to both African and American national interests. Yet a shrewd strategic communication campaign will not be enough to convince a sceptical African public that AFRICOM's priorities mirror their own. Indeed, much African distrust is justified. Since September 11, 2001 (9/11), the Department of Defense's (DoD) most significant endeavours in Africa have been undertaken in pursuit of narrowly conceived goals related to the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Operations in North and East Africa, though couched in a larger framework of development, long-term counterinsurgency, and a campaign to win "hearts and minds, " have nonetheless relied on offensive military operations focused on short-term objectives.
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• Introduction: Forging the American character
• Engineering patriotism
• The American civil-military religion and the Cold War
• Ideological and spiritual mobilization
• Evangelical democracy and the reshaping of the American character
• The U.S. military and the radical right
• Epilogue: The citizen soldier in retrospect.

The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. Here, author Lori Bogle investigates how the armed forces assigned themselves this role and why they sought to create ""ideologically sound Americans capable of defeating communism and assuring the victory of democracy at home and abroad."" Bogle shows that this view of America's civil religion predated tension with the Soviet Union. She traces this trend from the Progressive Era though the early Cold War, when the Truman and Eisenhower administrations formulated plans that promised to prepare the American public morally and spiritually for confrontation with the evils of communism. Bogle's analysis suggests that cooperation among the military, evangelical right wing groups, and government was considered both necessary and normal. The Boy Scouts pushed a narrow vision of American democracy, and Joe McCarthy's chauvinism was less an aberration than a noxious manifestation of a widespread attitude. To combat communism, America and its armed forces embraced a narrow moral education that attacked everyone and everything not consonant with their view of the world order. Exposure of this alliance ultimately dissolved it.
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• How do we judge / by James C. Miller III
• Alternatives in military manpower procurement / by David B. Johnson
• Who bears the burden of national defense? / by Mark V. Pauly and Thomas D. Willett
• Who "should" bear the burden of national defense? / by Mark V. Pauly and Thomas D. Willett
• Efficiency in military manpower procurement / by Mark V. Pauly and Thomas D. Willett
• Flexibility in military manpower procurement / by Mark V. Pauly and Thomas D. Willett
• Case studies : Britain and Canada / by James M. Scolnick, Jr.
• Our national tradition of conscription : the early years / by Cotton M. Lindsay
• Our national tradition of conscription : experience with the draft / by Cotton M. Lindsay
• Racial balance and the volunteer army / by Robert D. Tollison
• An army of "mercenaries"? / by Robert D. Tollison
• Nonmilitary reasons for military conscription / by James C. Miller III
• A volunteer army for America / by James C. Miller III.

• Summary and Introduction
• Background on the Deployed Force and Mechanics of the Increase
• Measures of Readiness
• CBO's Model of Future Deployments
• The Results of CBO's Analysis of Five Deployment Scenarios
• Rotation Ratios and Units Immediately Available: An Example
• Tables
• Figures.

In the world's most dangerous war zone, 400 American soldiers carry out their mission from a bombed-out pleasure palace once owned by Saddam Hussein. Welcome to a place called "Gunner Palace" and experience what life is like for the soldiers who live there. For these war hardened soldiers "minor combat" involves everything from executing raids on suspected terrorists, enduring roadside bombs and mortar attacks from an enemy they never see to post-raid parties around the palace pool. This is their story which shows a side of the war not seen on the nightly news.