"In the first place, the American soldier in time of peace is very much like every other type of American citizen . . . he becomes a soldier, and he remains a soldier, for what he can get out of it. Just as soon as he decides that he can get more out of civil life than he can out of the Army, then he is going to refuse to enlist or to reenlist."
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Johnson Hagood, Circular Relative to Pay of Officers and Enlisted Men of the Army (1907), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, p. 8, quoted in "A Historical Perspective on Today’s Recruiting Crisis" (2023), by Brian McAllister Linn, The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters, p. 10
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