[lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft

[Charles Brown]

Choice is significantly socially constructed,  and choosing joining the
military probably is more socially constructed than the average choice,
since putting yourself in danger of being killed should go against the
instinct for self-preservation. ( See Durkheim on suicide). That is , the
natural choice is not to "join" combat.

 
Socalled choosing to join during war with likelihood of going into combat
and choosing to join not during war are two different things.
What section of the current combat soldiers chose to join after the war
started or when it looked very possible or imminent ?

 
The vast majority of the population is working class, so a representative
sample of the population in the military would be working class.

Charles