Demobilization

Demobilization Stories
- American Civil war supplying battle hardened bad guys to wild west
- World War Two Supplying battle hardened union members to militant labor movement
- WWII vets taking part in the Peekskill Riots
- World War One veterans in Germany join ranks of extremists of the left and right
- Combatants roaming around in bands looting during hundred years war
- American treatment of WWI vets in Bonus March
- American Treatment of Vietnam vets and their involvement with antiwar movement and in violent crime
- Vets in Ku Klux Klan
- Unrest among veterans and soldiers after WWI: Huge British Strike. Revolt of French Troops in Russia
- Unrest among American soldiers still deployed after WWII ended.
- Paper about demobilization protests of WWII GIs
- Recent wars in Africa: Zimbabwae, Child Soldiers, AIDS, mirror of 100 years war
- Veterans and the bolshevic revolution
- Veterans and Shay's rebellion
- Stalin's treatment of veterans after WWII
- GI Bill
- Israeli veterans
Themes:
- Government programs for vets
- Length and severity of the war and effect on reintegration
- Economic opportunity immediately after war and effect on reintegration
- Veterans overcoming old corrupt power structures due to their experience in war
- Veterans participating in crime
- veterans with mental health problems, drug problems, suicide, domestic violence
- All volunteer army vs draft and effect on reintegration
- Age of people serving. Length of service, combat vs non-combat.
- Seats for the standing army: Create a large standing army to give vets something to do besides rape, pillage, and become politically involved.
- Child Soldiers