AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service-and How It Hurts Our Country

"This impassioned, convincing manifesto" from two policy experts with military family "calls for class integration of the military" (Publishers Weekly).

Military service was once a natural part of good citizenship, with Americans of all classes serving during wartime. Not anymore. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, there is a growing disconnect between the cultural "elite" who guide military policy and the rank-and-file servicemembers charged with ...