Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from December 1997

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from December 1997

The effects of race on procedural justice: the case of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
December 22, 1997... In a 1971 report to the then Secretary of Defense, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People concluded that "[l]arge numbers of black soldiers serving in the U.S. Armed Forces believe that the military justice system is...

Sexual harassment, cohesion, and combat readiness in U.S. Army support units.
December 22, 1997... With the progressive expansion of women's roles in the U.S. military, and their increasing presence in this male dominated domain, two important issues have emerged: first, the cohesion, readiness, and performance of soldiers in mixed gender...

N'angas, Varoyi, and Midzimu: the institutionalization of traditional beliefs in the Zimbabwe National Army.
December 22, 1997... Few military sociologists have questioned Max Weber's characterization of the military as a bureaucratic institution. The military as the epitome of an institution organized on the ideal type of rational-legal forms of authority has only been...

The military and politics in a theocratic state: Iran as a case study.
December 22, 1997... In the first three decades following the end of WWII, a substantial number of Third World countries experienced military intervention or praetorianism, i.e., "a situation in which military officers are major or predominant actors by virtue of...

Do attitudes matter? The military and democratic consolidation in Greece.
December 22, 1997... The newly emerging literature on democratic consolidation has recently turned its attention to the ability of militaries to exert differing limits upon democratic transition and consolidation processes. Efforts have been made to incorporate the...

Zero draft in the low countries: the final shift to the all-volunteer force.
December 22, 1997... The decline of the mass army is a central fact in military sociology. Technological change and sociocultural evolution are the major variables in bringing about this fundamental change in the recruitment and organization of manpower. Just as in...

America's Armed Forces: A Handbook of Current and Future Capabilities.
December 22, 1997... The editors begin the preface of this work with the acknowledgment that students of the current American armed forces are confronted with an ambiguous landscape. The American military is experiencing a significant transition involving...

Managing "Command and Control" in the Persian Gulf War.
December 22, 1997... This work is primarily an account of the findings of the official Gulf War Air Power Survey (GWAPS) that was commissioned in August 1991 by Air Force Secretary Donald B. Rice, the purpose of which was to "...collect, integrate and evaluate...

Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition.
December 22, 1997... Teaching a course on the Balkans is always a challenging experience. Yugoslavia's breakup, along with the rapid developments that followed and the plethora of unresolved issues that have surfaced affecting the Balkan peninsula have complicated...

Yugoslavia, The Former and Future: Reflections by Scholars from the Region.
December 22, 1997... Teaching a course on the Balkans is always a challenging experience. Yugoslavia's breakup, along with the rapid developments that followed and the plethora of unresolved issues that have surfaced affecting the Balkan peninsula have complicated...