AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from

AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service ― and How It Hurts Our Country – The Dangerous Gap in Understanding Between Policy and Defense

In America, it is increasingly the case that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, the gap between the "all-volunteer military" and the rest of us is widening, and our country faces a dangerous lack of understanding between those in power and those who defend our way of life.

AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service ― and How It Hurts Our Country – The Dangerous Gap in Understanding Between Policy and Defense