Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from January 1999

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from January 1999

Civil-military relations and the potential to influence: a look at the national security decision-making process.
January 1, 1999... One of the leading questions today in the scholarly civil-military literature is whether the U.S. military is too influential at higher levels of U.S. political-military decision-making, particularly since the beginning of the first Clinton...

The U.S. decision to launch operation Desert Storm: a bureaucratic politics analysis.
January 1, 1999... Within hours of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, the U.S. (along with France and Britain) responded by calling for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi troops, the freezing of Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets, and the...

Ideas, interests, and strategy: bureaucratic politics and the United States Navy.
January 1, 1999... It is commonly assumed that service interests play a dominant role in the determination of both military budgets and the shaping of military strategy. Recently this assumption was challenged by Edward Rhodes, who asserted rather that ideas...

A "grand design"? Charles De Gaulle and the end of the Algerian war.
January 1, 1999... Advocates of Charles de Gaulle, particularly himself, present the French retreat from Algeria as resulting from the preplanned statesmanship of one man: de Gaulle. This "grand design" thesis includes several arguments, three of which are the...

How long does it take to change a culture? Integration at the U.S. Naval Academy.
January 1, 1999... For the past few decades there has been a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) as the armed forces have adapted to a world moving from the Industrial Age into the Information Age. While the RMA has been caused by changes in technology, its...

Deadly transfers, national hypocrisy, and global chaos.
January 1, 1999... Recently, cross-national transactions have risen dramatically in conjunction with the growth of global interdependence. Within these flows across boundaries are many that are not under national governments' exclusive initiation or control....

Beating Plowshares Into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Paul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. 376. $39.95, hardcover. Paul A. C. Koistinen and his publisher are in the process of producing a five-volume body of information on a subject that is rarely...

Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Paul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. 391. $45.00, hardcover. Paul A. C. Koistinen and his publisher are in the process of producing a five-volume body of information on a subject that is rarely...

Security Studies for the 21st Century.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Richard Shultz, Roy Goodson, and George Quester, eds. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's Publishing, 1997. Pp. 448. $49.95, hardcover. Security Studies for the 21st Century is a literal crossfire of academic works on the study of national...

The Military in Greek Politics: From Independence to Democracy.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Thanos Veremis. Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books, 1997. Pp. 227. $53.99, hardcover; $24.99, softcover. This book operates at two levels. The first is a concise history of the Greek military; the second is an appraisal of the conditions...

The Scroll or the Sword? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Stuart A. Cohen. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. Pp. 148. $22.00, hardcover. Stuart Cohen describes a relationship between religious practice and military service in Jewish tradition that has apparently come...

Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Jonathan F. Vance. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. Pp. 319. $39.95, hardcover. Jonathan Vance has produced a carefully researched, well-written, and creative contribution to our understanding of the impact of...

Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Paul Fussell. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Company, 1996. Pp. 310. $24.95, hardcover; $13.95, softcover. Paul Fussell grew up during the Great Depression in an affluent, well-connected Pasadena, California, family. In 1941, he entered the...

Out in Force: Sexual Orientation and the Military.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Gregory M. Herek, Jared B. Jobe, and Ralph M. Carney, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. 337. $18.95, softcover. Arguments for excluding them have been around for a long time. They're security risks - susceptible to...

War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence.(Review)
January 1, 1999... David Turton, ed. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp. 270. $71.00, hardcover. At first glance one might think that the ten papers comprising this book are a strange mix. There are only four case studies: of Yugoslavia,...

Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media's Influence on Peace Operations.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Warren P. Strobel. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 1997. Pp.275. $14.95, softcover. In 1994, when General Shelton stepped out of a helicopter and onto Haitian soil, his first act as commander of the U.S. intervention...

Civil Military Operations in the New World.(Review)
January 1, 1999... John T. Fishel. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Pp. 288. $65.00, hardcover. It is apparent to soldiers and civilians alike that they must work together in today's complex operations. The realization is rarely accompanied by an understanding...