A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

THE CHANGING AND CONTESTED POLITICAL ECONOMICS OF THE U.S. ARMY.

Jennifer Mittelstadt, The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2015) ("This book examines how military service intertwined with citizenship and entitlement through the history of welfare provision in the late twentieth-century U.S. Army. While all branches of the U.S. military expanded their benefits and social programs for soldiers and families, the army operated as the vanguard as well as the largest and costliest element of military social welfare." Id. at 5-6. Free market. Military service as job. Christian family values. Outsourcing. Race, class, women. Education.).