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Home > Part E - Governance and International Relations
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National Defense, Wars, Armed Forces, and Veterans
Editor: Scott Sigmund Gartner
Associate Editor: Hugh Rockoff

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National Defense, Wars, and Armed Forces

Veterans

     
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Military Personnel and Casualties       7 Tables
Military Expenditures       4 Tables
Battle Campaigns       5 Tables
Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control       2 Tables
Veterans     19 Tables


Acknowledgments

Scott Gartner acknowledges the research assistance of Bethany Barratt, Michael Koch, and Patricia Sullivan, as well as the research support of the Institute of Governmental Affairs at the University of California, Davis. He also thanks the Division of Social Science and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis; the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa; and the Department of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, for helping to provide the time and resources to complete this project.

Hugh Rockoff thanks Henry Caplan, Annette Hamilton, and Michael Wells, of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and David J. Fleck of the Census Bureau, who provided help with preparing the statistics for the veterans tables. Neither they nor the Department of Veterans Affairs nor the Bureau of the Census are responsible for any of the opinions expressed here, or the use made of their work. In addition, James W. Chamberlin, Stanley Engerman, Scott Gartner, and Sam Williamson read previous drafts of this chapter and made valuable suggestions. Rockoff also thanks Deepa Bhat, a graduate student at Rutgers University, for her help in preparing the tables. The Department of Economics of Rutgers University provided the research assistance that made this work possible.



 
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