Contents
Preface: Oppositional Positioning | Tad Tuleja
Introduction: The Myth of the Robot Soldier | Tad Tuleja
Part I: Weapons of the Weak
1. On the Griping of Grunts | Angus Kress Gillespie
2. Back Chat: Subversion and Conformity in Dominion Cartoons of the World Wars | Christina M. Knopf
3. Warriors’ Bodies as Sites of Microresistance in the American Military | John Paul Wallis and Jay Mechling
Part II: Rattling the Chain of Command
4. Jumping the Chain: A Military Psychologist’s Story | Mark C. Russell
5. A Captain’s First Duty: Managing Command Disconnect in a Combat Zone | Ronald Fry
Part III: Questioning the Patriotic Crusade
6. (De)composing the “Machine of Decomposition”: Creative Insubordination in E.E. Cummings’s The Enormous Room | Matthew David Perry
7. Café Colonels and Whizz-Bangs | Tad Tuleja
8. The Wild Deserters of No Man’s Land: A Ghoulish Legend of the Great War | James I. Deutsch
Part IV: Messing with the Narrative
9. Breaking Ranks: Initiative and Heroism in a Vietnam Firefight | Richard Allen Burns
10. Challenging the Male Hierarchy: Women Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan | Catherine Calloway
11. A Good Coffin: The Iraq War Poetry of Gerardo Mena | Ron Ben-Tovim
12. Telling Stories in War | Carol Burke
Conclusion. Discipline and the Limits of Unit Cohesion | Tad Tuleja
Contributors