An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era Bailey Beth
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era Bailey Beth By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was…
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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era Bailey Beth
By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. AWOL rates were rising. Morale was tanking.
The days of "same mud, same blood" were over, and a new generation of Black GIs had decisively rejected the slights and institutional racism their forefathers had endured.As Black and white soldiers fought in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into surrounding towns within the US and in West Germany, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan, army leaders grew convinced that the growing racial crisis undermined the army's ability to defend the nation. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. Acclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the US Army