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In: Sociétés: revue des sciences humaines et sociales, Band 86, Heft 4, S. 57
ISSN: 1782-155X
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In: Sociétés: revue des sciences humaines et sociales, Band 86, Heft 4, S. 57
ISSN: 1782-155X
In: Logiques sociales
In: Sociologies et environnement
In: Sociologies et environnement
In: Sugyot ḥevratiyot be-Yiśraʾel: ketav-ʿet le-nośʾe ḥevrah = Social issues in Israel : a journal for study and analysis of Israeli social issues, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 179-202
ISSN: 2617-6769
In: Israel affairs, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1743-9086
In: Armed forces & society, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 343-363
ISSN: 1556-0848
This study presents an empirically grounded account of tunnel combat operations in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) within the context of "post-heroic" warfare. Current scholarship on "post-heroism" has viewed the technological and professional standards of contemporary military conflicts as distancing the individual combatant from the modern battlefield. Little attention has been given however to the ways in which soldiers themselves experience and adapt to post-heroic conditions. Findings based on in-depth semistructured interviews with 17 IDF tunnel combatants show these soldiers actively reinterpreting the strategic importance placed on distancing the warrior from the battlefield. This exploratory article suggests that an individual "warrior ethos" still resonates amid the professional and technological contours of post-heroic (underground) conflicts. By presenting a novel account of contemporary tunnel warfare from the perspective of the combatants themselves, this research sheds new light on the different personal dimensions that impact post-heroic military operations.