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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Military, State and Society in Israel: An Introductory Essay -- Part 1: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives -- 1. Western-Type Civil-Military Relations Revisited -- 2. From Wars of Independence to Democratic Peace: Comparing the Cases of Israel and the United States -- Part 2: The Politics of Civil-Military Relations -- 3. Civil-Military Relations in Israel in Crisis -- 4. From Military Role-Expansion to Difficulties in Peace-Making: The Israel Defense Forces 50 Years On -- 5. Dimensions of Tension between Religion and Military Service in Contemporary Israel -- Part 3: The State and War-Making-Creating Citizens, Soldiers and Men and Women -- 6. Paradoxes of Women's Service in the Israel Defense Forces -- 7. Tests of Soldierhood, Trials of Manhood: Military Service and Male Ideals in Israel -- 8. The Meaning of War Through Veterans' Eyes: A Phenomenological Analysis of Life Stories -- 9. Citizenship Regime, Identity and Peace Protest in Israel -- Part 4: The Notion of "National Security"-Institutions and Concepts -- 10. The Link between the Government and the IDF During Israel's First 50 Years: The Shifting Role of the Defense Minister -- 11. A New Concept of National Security Applied on Israel -- Part 5: The Armed Forces as Organization-Continuity and Change -- 12. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF): A Conservative or an Adaptive Organization? -- 13. Organizational Complexity, Trust and Deceit in the Israeli Air Force -- Epilogue: Uniqueness and Normalization in Military-Government Relations in Israel -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index

MASTERING SOLDIERS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; INTERLUDE 1: THE TENOR OF MILITARY LANGUAGE; 1. THE MILITARY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; INTERLUDE 2: CAMARADERIE AND FELLOWSHIP; 2. THE UNIT: AN INFANTRY BATTALION; INTERLUDE 3: ACTION, FEAR, AND FIGHTING MEN; 3. A MODEL OF COMBAT: SOLDIERING AND EMOTIONAL CONTROL; INTERLUDE 4: IN THE FIELD; 4. THE MODEL IN USE: THE BATTALION AND OTHER UNITS; INTERLUDE 5: SOLDIERING THE INTIFADA; 5. ENEMIES; INTERLUDE 6: A LETTER TO THE MEN; 6. MODELS OF MOTIVATION; INTERLUDE 7: THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN OFFICERS AND MEN.

Every country possessing an armed force has a military covenant: a set of shared, often implicit, expectations between the military and society. Derived from the social contract, the military covenant focuses on the willingness of soldiers to make sacrifices and forgo certain rights enjoyed by civilians in return for recognition of their important social role, fair treatment of them, and commensurate terms and conditions of service. This article uses the case of Taiwan to show how the military covenant in a new democracy emerges out of social, political, and economic forces and to specify some of the special difficulties of formulating a democratic covenant. It explains that the covenant is a form of relational (as opposed to transactional) contract marked by trust and a long-term future orientation. The article then extends the study of covenants to issues of motivation, readiness, and risk taking and offers insights for further research on military covenants.