Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from June 1994

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from June 1994

Militarism, the United States, and the Cold War.
June 22, 1994... The growth of the American national security establishment during and after World War II has stimulated popular and scholarly debate as to whether militarization was accompanied by rising militarism. Conclusions vary according to the definition...

Military culture: change and continuity.
June 22, 1994... Social scientists commonly use three interrelated concepts-ideal types, models, and paradigms-to study and explain social phenomena (e.g., poverty, crime, culture, and change). This article uses these theoretical concepts to examine both change...

A political-warrior model: the Combined Action Program.
June 22, 1994... Americans are growing accustomed to seeing soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines engaged in humanitarian missions throughout the world. Northern Iraq, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Southern Florida, Cuba, Somalia, and the Balkans are only some of...

Operation "Just Missed": lessons from failed coup attempts.
June 22, 1994... As an irregular, illegitimate operation, the coup d'etat is the nonroutine event par excellence. Donald L. Horowitz(1) Over the past several decades, a number of studies have examined the primary method of governmental change and succession...

Military retirees: a portrait of the community.
June 22, 1994... The end of the Cold War is bringing budget cuts and force reductions to military establishments around the globe. Similarly, defense industries, both here and abroad, are struggling to convert to other types of production. But one part of the...

New perspectives on the military profession: the I/O model and Esprit de Corps reevaluated. (institution/occupation model)
June 22, 1994... Samuel P. Huntington first and most clearly defined the officers corps as a profession.(1) Morris Janowitz delivered the best arguments for this definition,(2) while Charles C. Moskos questioned any unchanging status for the military as a...

Demographic trends and personnel policies as determinants of the racial composition of the volunteer Army.
June 22, 1994... Racial Composition of the Army Despite expectations that the end of the military draft and the advent of an all-volunteer force in the United States would not affect the 'racial composition of America's military forces,(1) minority recruitment...

Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two.
June 22, 1994... From a practical standpoint, Allan Berube and Randy Shilts must be grateful for the controversy stimulated by President Clinton's well-intentioned, albeit faint-hearted, effort to lift the ban on homosexuals serving in the military. When...

Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf.
June 22, 1994... From a practical standpoint, Allan Berube and Randy Shilts must be grateful for the controversy stimulated by President Clinton's well-intentioned, albeit faint-hearted, effort to lift the ban on homosexuals serving in the military. When...

Exclusion: Homosexuals and the Right to Serve.
June 22, 1994... From a practical standpoint, Allan Berube and Randy Shilts must be grateful for the controversy stimulated by President Clinton's well-intentioned, albeit faint-hearted, effort to lift the ban on homosexuals serving in the military. When...

Gays: In or Out?: The U.S. Military and Homosexuals - a Sourcebook.
June 22, 1994... From a practical standpoint, Allan Berube and Randy Shilts must be grateful for the controversy stimulated by President Clinton's well-intentioned, albeit faint-hearted, effort to lift the ban on homosexuals serving in the military. When Berube's...

Challenges in Military Health Care: Perspectives on Health Status and Provision of Care.
June 22, 1994... The nation's health care system is currently undergoing rapid, fiscally driven change, as is the military. This book comes at the right time to serve as a resource for the scholar who wishes to learn about the health status of the military and...

The U.S. Navy in the 1990s: Alternatives for Action.
June 22, 1994... Now that U.S. strategic concern has properly shifted from worry about a hegemonic Soviet Union to regional challenges in the Third World, a fundamental rethinking of military forces and missions is required. James L. George has no illusions about...

Crossed Currents; Navy Women from WWI to Tailhook.
June 22, 1994... "As any sailor knows, where currents cross, the waters are troubled," explain the authors. Indeed the history of women serving in the Navy is a stormy one - and an almost unknown one at that. While the Army sponsored two long and excellent...

Who Will Fight the Next War? The Changing Face of the American Military.
June 22, 1994... Martin Binkin returns to the topics of three earlier works to provide current data and perspectives on the controversies surrounding women's performance in combat, disproportionate numbers of blacks in the military, and the effectiveness and...

The Politics of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans Since the War.
June 22, 1994... "Good" wars unite a people against an evil enemy, while "bad" wars are divisive in terms of the justice and necessity of war. Generally, Americans have thought of the Second World War as a good war and Vietnam as a bad one. However, one thing is...

Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers & Vietnam.
June 22, 1994... Working-Class War is a contribution to what has been a slowly, but steadily, building debate about the equity of service in the military and in combat during the Vietnam War. This contribution weighs in on the side of the question on which my own...

National Service, Citizenship, and Political Education.
June 22, 1994... After a long period of neglect, sociologists have returned to the study of "citizenship" - the reciprocal relations of rights and duties between governments and people. For military sociologists, citizenship has always been a critical issue...

The Draft: 1940 - 1973.
June 22, 1994... George Q. Flynn established his reputation as a careful student of the history of conscription in American society with his biography of Lewis B. Hershey: Mr. Selective Service. Indeed, one might wonder what there was left to say on the subject,...

Strategy After Deterrence.
June 22, 1994... This fine book illustrates the difficulties for anyone trying to write a book, or even a journal article, today on issues of east-west international security. It is not so, as some might suppose, because all of these issues have been solved with...