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Naval War College Review

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The first instance in Western literature of an attempt to devise an ideal way to recruit and structure military forces into the fabric of a society was probably Plato's dialog, The Republic. This same general effort has continued over the intervening two and a half millennia, either aided or handicapped by changing social, political, and economic conditions.

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