Racial Selection in Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan

Laura Armey, Peter Berck and Jonathan Lipow

Defence and Peace Economics, 2021, vol. 32, issue 2, 178-192

Abstract: The US Armed Forces officially desegregated in 1948. Over the following 70 years, the military has made great strides in promoting racial integration. We find evidence, however, that Black soldiers’ experience of military service still differs significantly from that of other racial and ethnic groups. Exploiting a database of administrative records for 100,000 Army personnel serving during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, we find that Blacks were less likely than other service members to have deployed, or to face intense combat if deployed, during the early phases of the campaigns.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2019.1685341

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