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Show 101 to be difficult, the official military viewpoint is crucial complete understanding of the erosion troops and the of morale among U.S. possible role played by the GI This thesis suggests that the to a combat press in that process. military vastly over-estimated the influence of the GI papers, assuming them to be the products of well a coordinated communist conspiracy rather than symptoms of wide spread discontent and psychological dislocations resulting from the reaction of officers and enlisted with the problem of tutional war, the to U.S. men its mission in justifying What effect the GI some benefit from military might tion of its reaction to dissent within conflict. policy. an undergrounds extent the ganda military command fell own neces To what Cold War propa military's capacity for developing a response to dissent should also be examined. GI papers may have shared a common publishers of locally produced middle class background. Future underground press should attempt the development studies of the GI a volunteer Army able to make the victim to its This thesis suggests that the of a knowledgeable military authorities. and how this affected the rational impartial examina had upon the decision to special interest to researchers sary contacts with future unconsti is ranks during the recent withdraw troops from Vietnam and to establish should be of If faced sociological profile of military personnel active as under ground publishers. Such the American's left' basis of a profile would aid in assumptions concerning the worki'ng class as a revolutionary activity. tion of the term Finally, the evaluation of It might also aid in the redefini working class when applied to American society. if future political conditions permit an evaluation of |
