Note also how the mythologizing of "the troops" really picked up after the draft ended. When the military is a chore, and when a bunch of people who aren't interested in it have to serve anyways, it's harder to maintain a heavily-propagandized view of the institution.
I don't think that's a hard rule though, many right wing governments had conscription and maintained a fantasy view of the military, that's a tenement of fascism.
The mythologizing the troops was already widespread from ww1, ww2, and Korea. Like in the popular consciousness of American conservatives, the Vietnam War did not really disrupt it. Rather all the drafted protesting just become bad troops.
Note also how the mythologizing of "the troops" really picked up after the draft ended. When the military is a chore, and when a bunch of people who aren't interested in it have to serve anyways, it's harder to maintain a heavily-propagandized view of the institution.
I don't think that's a hard rule though, many right wing governments had conscription and maintained a fantasy view of the military, that's a tenement of fascism.
The mythologizing the troops was already widespread from ww1, ww2, and Korea. Like in the popular consciousness of American conservatives, the Vietnam War did not really disrupt it. Rather all the drafted protesting just become bad troops.