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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface: The Collapse -- Introduction: Breaking the Myth -- Chapter 1: The Origins of the Separate World -- Chapter 2: Unfounded Hubris -- Chapter 3: Conformity and Cronyism-One and the Same -- Chapter 4: Supreme Values-How Loyalty Creates Dishonesty -- Chapter 5: A Culture of Silence-Censorship and Retaliation -- Chapter 6: Criminality, Abuse, and Corruption -- Chapter 7: Violence, Torture, and War Crimes -- Conclusion: The Consequences of Separation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A Note on the Author -- Copyright.

Offering a contemporary perspective on military culture within Africa and with contributions from scholars and practitioners from around the world, this work presents the argument that African armed forces need to come to terms with the elements of military culture if they want to become more professional. To this end, the book first focuses on the theory of military culture, its implications for civil-military relations, and the role of the armed forces in society before examining a number of cases, from Canada, Australia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and

Mission Formations and a New Agenda for the Study of Military Units in Action / Eyal Ben-Ari, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Thomas Brond and Carmit Padan -- New Directions in Military Sociology: Reflections on a Book Project Fifteen Years Later / Eric Ouellet -- Organizational Adaptations in the Hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A Review of Concepts for Analyzing Their Usefulness / Wilbur Scott -- Bureaucracies, Networks and Warfare in a Fluid Operating Environment / Jessica Glicken Turnley -- From Leading Combat Units to Leading Combat Formations: Modularity, Loose Systems, and Temporariness / Eyal Ben Ari -- Research Approaches for the Study of Combat Formations - A Personal Note / Uzi Ben-Shalom -- Institutional Isomorphic Change in South Korea's UNPKO Mission Formation / Insoo Kim and Young-Il Choi -- 'Democracy... 120 mm at a Time': Mission Formations and Operational Entrapments in Post-9/11 Afghanistan / Thomas Randrup Pedersen -- Logics battlefield: IT Contracting and Military Reserves in the Dutch Army / Joseph Soeters, Gerold de Gooijer, Paul C. van Fenema and Nuno Oliveira -- Integrative Epilogue: What's New About the Mission Formations Approach? Thinking Through the MilitaryAcademic Juncture / Thomas Crosbie.

"Provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course: what we don't know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people's lives. It demonstrates that the military, like colleges and prisons, is a key social institution that engages individuals in early adulthood and shapes processes of cumulative (dis)advantage over the life course."--Provided by publisher.

"Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research methods used, especially in relation to qualitative methods. The data that form the basis of the researchers' analyses are often presented as if they were immediately available, rather than as a product of interaction between the researcher and those who participated in the research. Comprising essays by international scholars, the volume discusses the methodological questions raised by the use of qualitative research methodology in military settings. On the one hand, it focuses on the specificity of the military as a social context for research: the authors single out and discuss the particular field effects produced by institutional arrangements, norms and practices of the military. On the other, the authors proceed in an empirical manner: all methodological questions are addressed with regard to concrete situations of field research. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, war and conflict studies and security studies in general"--Provided by publisher.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military' provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which militaries issues and military forces are shaped by gender. The chapters provide detailed accounts of key issues, informed by examples from original research in a wealth of different national contexts. This 'Handbook' includes coverage of conceptual approaches to the study of gender and militaries, gender and the organisation of state military forces, gender as it pertains to military forces in action, transitions and transgressions within militaries, gender and non-state military forces, and gender in representations of military personnel and practices. With contributions from a range of both established and early career scholars, 'The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military' is an essential guide to current debates on gender and contemporary military issues

The author offers a candid reassessment of the role of anthropologists in mediating encounters between Western armies and non-Western peoples.

This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. As an institution relying on individuals and resources provided by society, the military has been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines: political science, sociology, history, psychology, anthropology, economics and administrative studies. The methodological approaches in these disciplines vary from computational modelling of conflicts and surveys of military performance, to the qualitative study of military stories from the battlefield and veterans experiences. Rapidly de.