The roster of the dead is a portrait of a military in transition, with ever-widening roles and costs for part-time soldiers, women and Hispanics.
Thursday, September 9
Mostly white
I imagine many people will find it disappointing that so few minorities are dying, because now they can't say it's a racist war. Nonetheless, the blurb for the article accompanying the original of the graphic below states,
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whoever said it was a racist war? That issue only comes up when there's a draft, and the last draft was during Vietnam, when casualties were definitely skewed towards minorities. Now, the argument will be that this is a class-based war, since in peacetime only the working/middle class will voluntarily seek the military way of life, at least as far as the enlisted ranks. Those are the types who join our 'part-time army', which is no longer the refuge of the well-to do.
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