Title
Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court Martial
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Description
Using military justice records, Elizabeth Lutes Hillman demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission, ideological goals, fear of homosexuality, and attitude toward racial, gender, and class difference. The records also show that only the most inept, unfortunate, and impolitic of misbehaving service members were likely to be prosecuted. Young, poor, low-ranking, and nonwhite servicemen bore a disproportionate burden in the military's enforcement of crime, and gay men and lesbians paid the price for the armed forces' official hostility toward homosexuality. While the U.S. military fought to defend the Constitution, the Cold War court-martial punished those who wavered from accepted political convictions, sexual behavior, and social conventions, threatening the very rights of due process and free expression the Constitution promised.
ISBN
978-0691118048
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press
City
Princeton
Recommended Citation
Hillman, Elizabeth, "Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court Martial" (2005). Faculty Books. 8.
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/faculty_books/8