Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from January 2001

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from January 2001

Overview.(cultural gap between military and society in US)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... This special issue contains several articles resulting from a large, multiyear, team research project investigating a cultural gap between the military and American society. The overall project, which we directed under the sponsorship of the...

The Elite Media and the Military-Civilian Culture Gap.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Scholars have periodically discussed a gap between the military and civilian cultures. [1] One facet of that gap is the divergence in the views of military officers and civilian journalists (news executives, editors, and reporters) about the...

Image as Argument: The Impact of Mogadishu on U.S. Military Intervention.
January 1, 2001... There has been discussion in academic and popular sources for some time of the phenomenon of casualty shyness and its policy manifestation, casualty aversion. There is a presumption that for any given mission, the American people's support will...

The Military and Society: Reaching and Reflecting Audiences in Fiction and Film.
January 1, 2001... Relatively few recent novels and movies focus on current relations between American military and civilian cultures. Military cultures are mentioned or implied in only about six percent of publishers' descriptions of the best-selling books of...

The Civilian-Military Gap and Professional Military Education at the Precommissioning Level.
January 1, 2001... This article focuses on the influence of professional military education (PME) [1] at the precommissioning level, i.e., the U.S. military academies (Army, Navy, and Air Force) and within the Army and Navy Reserve Officers Training program...

Civil-Military Relations in War College Curricula.
January 1, 2001... Max Weber defined the state as the institution with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. In the U.S. two institutions apply that force: the police and the military. The power of the police is restricted by society. Their weaponry is...

Why Wars Happen & War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jeremy Black, Why Wars Happen. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. 272. $30.00, hardcover. Jeremy Black, War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. 334....

The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories, 2nd ed.(Review)
January 1, 2001... John V. Denson, ed., The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories, 2nd ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999. Pp. 535. $34.95, hardcover. When economists compute the costs of war, they typically look at the spending on war...

The World Within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Gerald F. Linderman, The World Within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. 408. $15.95, paperback. This volume explores the variety of combat experiences that American soldiers...

All the Laws But One--Civil Liberties in Wartime.(Review)
January 1, 2001... William H. Rehnquist, All the Laws But One--Civil Liberties in Wartime. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Pp. 254. $26.00, hardcover. Responding obliquely to Chief Justice Roger Taney's repudiation of his decision to suspend the writ of...

Another Kind of Justice: Canadian Military Law from Confederation to Somalia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Chris Madsen, Another Kind of Justice: Canadian Military Law from Confederation to Somalia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. Pp. 236. $75.00, hardcover. Military justice systems have come under scrutiny in a number of...

Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin, eds., Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 976. $45.00, hardcover. Zachary Taylor issued "orders...

New Frontiers in Middle East Security.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Lenore K. Martin, ed., New Frontiers in Middle East Security. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 279. $49.95, hardcover. The cauldron known as the Middle East has been in a seemingly constant state of perturbation, causing ripples not...

The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?(Review)
January 1, 2001... Stephanie Gutmann, The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? New York: Scribner, 2000. Pp. 300. $25.00, hardcover. Historically, the genre of literary nonfiction has been a potent way to...