“Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.”

— C. Wright Mills , book The Power Elite

The Power Elite (1956)

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American sociologist 1916–1962

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