Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from January 2000

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from January 2000

Duty, Honor, Country: The Social Identity of West Point Cadets.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... In January 1996, Michael New, a medic in the 3rd U.S. Infantry division stationed in Germany, was convicted of failure to obey a lawful order by refusing to wear the United Nations blue beret and patch as part of a peacekeeping task force to be...

Explaining the Rise and Fall of Military Regimes: Civil-Military Relations in the Congo.
January 1, 2000... When the late president of the Congo, General Mobutu Sese Seko, seized power in 1965, he promised to curb the ethnic basis of political demands that had been polarizing Congolese society since June 1960. He achieved his goal and ruled the...

The First Wave: Gender Integration and Military Culture.
January 1, 2000... In November of 1996 allegations of sexual misconduct ranging from inappropriate grabbing to rape surfaced at the Army's mechanics training school at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The accusations were made by young women trainees against...

The Impact of Deployment on the Retention of Military Reservists.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Since Operation Desert Shield/Storm (ODS/S), the reserve forces have participated in almost every large foreign deployment: for instance, reserve component members were activated or volunteered to support Operation Restore Democracy (Haiti),...

The Imprint of the Intifada: Response of Kibbutz-Born Soldiers to Military Service in the West Bank and Gaza.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... War, But Not Real War The Intifada ("surge" in Arabic), which suddenly broke out in December 1987, was civilian resistance by the Palestinians against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (the Occupied Territories)...

Conscription in Scandinavia During the Last Quarter Century: Developments and Arguments.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... In 1970, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway shared somewhat similar conscription arrangements. Conscription was an obligatory service for almost all young men of a cohort, and conscripts constituted the bulk of all armed forces personnel: in Denmark...

Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House, 1998. Pp. 442. $24.95, hardcover. They have been gathering among themselves for decades, these war veterans of what Tom Brokaw calls the "greatest generation that any society has...

Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. Pp. 406. $14.00, paperback. It has been 135 years since General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant squared off...

Fereydoun Hoveyda, The Broken Crescent: The "Threat" of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Fereydoun Hoveyda, The Broken Crescent: The "Threat" of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1998. Pp. 237. $39.95, hardcover. As an official in the late Shah of Iran's regime, including as Iranian Ambassador...

Allison B. Gilmore, You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare Against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Allison B. Gilmore, You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare Against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press. Pp. 226. $45.00, hardcover. Psychological operations...

Nancy K. Bristow, Making Men Moral: Social Engineering during the Great War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Nancy K. Bristow, Making Men Moral: Social Engineering during the Great War. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. 298. $19.50, hardcover. At what point does intellectual inquiry run into Heisenbergian uncertainty as it digs...

Allan C. Stain III, Win, Lose, or Draw: Domestic Politics and the Crucible of War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Allan C. Stain III, Win, Lose, or Draw: Domestic Politics and the Crucible of War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 239. $47.50, hardcover; 19.95, paperback. By arguing that domestic politics play a critical role in...

John Prados, The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... John Prados, The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. Pp. 432. $35.00, hardcover. John Prados has authored an extremely comprehensive study of the many factors that impacted military...

Theodor Meron, Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Theodor Meron, Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 246. $29.95, hardcover. In his introduction to Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare, distinguished professor of...

James C. Bradford, ed., The Military and Conflict Between Cultures.(Review)
January 1, 2000... James C. Bradford, ed., The Military and Conflict Between Cultures: Soldiers at the Interface. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1997. Pp. 236. $37.95, hardcover. This edited volume brilliantly exemplifies just how significant...