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| #735656 in Books | Ingramcontent | 2014-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.90 x6.10l,.0 | File Name: 1469619032 | 320 pages | Armed with Abundance Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A compelling inquiry into the modern dynamics of war-making|By Stacy|A well-researched glimpse at an under-reported aspect of the Vietnam War: the fact that 2/3 of the people who served, served in the rear in non-combat roles. The central question of the book is this: "What if we focus on the majority experience of war in the contemporary US military, as opposed to the minorit||Leading a much-needed re-evaluation of Americans' Vietnam War experiences and all the layers of complexity that are buried under public memory and myth.--Journal of Social History||
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Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other "comforts" share the frame with combat.
To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to ins...
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