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GENDER DISPARITIES IN ENFORCING THE HONOR CONCEPT AT U.S. THE NAVAL ACADEMY.
March 22, 2001... Women were first admitted to the United States Naval Academy in 1976. This occurred after turbulent congressional hearings that resulted in President Ford's signature of a public law mandating that women be admitted to all Department of Defense military academies.(1) The first cohort of...

THE EFFECTS OF STRESS ON JOB FUNCTIONING OF MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN.
March 22, 2001... Both military women and men are exposed to a wide range of stressor events as a part of military training and work assignments.(1) In addition, military women may also experience stressors related to being a woman in a traditionally and predominantly male work environment.(2) The link...

ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: THE SEARCH FOR STRATEGIC LEGITIMACY.
March 22, 2001... It has now been more than two decades--well before the end of the Cold War--since the Worldwatch Institute's Lester Brown first issued a plea to adopt a new and more robust conception of national security attuned to the contemporary world. The threats to security, he argued even then, now...

CONNECTED TO SOCIETY: THE POLITICAL BELIEFS OF U.S. ARMY GENERALS.
March 22, 2001... You know, we've always voted but we've never been aggressively following a competition to determine the who's and the why's. We've just kind of said, hey, you know, whoever the Americans say is Commander-in-Chief, that will be our boss (Interview #34). In response to a...

ARE POST-COLD WAR MILITARIES POSTMODERN?
March 22, 2001... The theoretical perspective of postmodernism has become commonplace in sociology. Not surprisingly, military sociologists have begun to apply the description to the forms of military organization emerging after the end of the Cold War in Europe, and to military personnel themselves.(1)...