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Conscription in the Twentieth Century John D. Ciorciari using other works in theThis collection reveals conscription as one of the most powerful and coercive tools of the modern state, a litmus test for the relationship between governments, militaries, and the people they claim to defend. Americans often view their military through the lens of confident exceptionalism a belief that the challenges faced by other nations could never take root in the United States. Our history, we tell ourselves, proves it. Yet a closer look at how