Reflections on Dissent and the Military

Introduces "Symposium: Military Dissent," in which six contributors give personal accounts of their dissent against military service. All revolve around the theme of what effect the moral dilemmas & brutality of war would have on their own humanity. Most served prison time for their "military disobedience" during wartime, ranging from WWII, Vietnam, & the Israeli-Palestinian war, to the first & second Gulf Wars. Skelly sees war as a threat to our sense of humanity & argues emphatically that this instrument of foreign & domestic policy must be abandoned forever. J. Stanton