Selling Military Service During Wartime: U.S. Army Recruitment Advertising and Enlistment Motivation During the War Against Terror
By: Martin Fransen
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.12 | Journal eISSN: 2596-3856
Language: English
Page range: 178 - 192
Submitted on: Oct 15, 2018
Accepted on: Aug 20, 2019
Published on: Oct 23, 2019
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