Seeds of Dissent in the U.S. Military Are Growing

by DefendUSx July 03, 2009 16:25 By Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Editor’s Note: The following is an introduction by Tom Engelhardt. The All-Volunteer Force (AVF) exists for a reason captured in a study by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., author of the “definitive history of the Marine Corps,” published in Armed Forces Journal in 1971. The U.S. military in Vietnam was at that moment at the edge of chaos. As Colonel Heinl put it, it was experiencing “widespre