Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from June 1995

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from June 1995

The AEF and Coalition Warmaking: 1917-1918.
June 22, 1995... With the appearance of his first book over three decades ago, David F. Trask established himself as one of the preeminent historians of the American military effort in World War I. In the years since, he has added to this reputation in...

Voices of Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight.
June 22, 1995... Craig Howes's Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight is instructive, well written, wonderfully interesting, well researched, and historically satisfying, and in the end, like most books that address issues revolving around the...

Modern Latin American Revolutions.
June 22, 1995... The end of the Cold War has hardly tamed the literature about revolutions. Traditional interpretations of revolutionary causes, primarily focused on "structural conditions," are giving way to a variety of creative investigations about the...

Armed Forces and Political Power in Eastern Europe: The Soviet/Communist Control System.
June 22, 1995... This book is a study of the evolution, nature, and demise of the Soviet/Communist control system in Eastern Europe. Its primary focus is the network of coercive and socialization mechanisms used by the Soviet Union and the former East European...

Hostage to Revolution: Gorbachev and Soviet Security Policy, 1985-1991.
June 22, 1995... Blacker, director of studies at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University, wrote this terse, tightly argued volume as part of a series published by the Council on Foreign Relations as a low cost-study...

Charting the Post-Cold War Order.
June 22, 1995... The end of the Cold War has occasioned some hard thinking about the causes and consequences of this epochal change. This particular contribution to the burgeoning literature on the post-Cold War world, edited by Richard Leaver and James L....

Peacekeeping: Challenges for the Future.
June 22, 1995... This volume is a collection of twenty-one essays that discuss the range of current peacekeeping issues arising from the experience of recent interventions, such as the missions in Somalia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, through classical issues, such...

Citizenship status and military service: the quest for inclusion by minorities and conscientious objectors.
June 22, 1995... The myth of citizenship in liberal democracies is that everyone has equal status. This is, of course, an aspiration and not a fact. There is much variability in the status of citizens, and explaining this variation has occupied the majority of...

The dynamics of social change and the Australian Defence Force.
June 22, 1995... It is an article of faith among students of the subject that armed forces I reflect the nature of the society that raises and maintains them. It is a doctrine that goes back at least to Clausewitz, who argued that the political and social...

Politico-economic limitations and the fall of the military-authoritarian government in Bangladesh. (Hussain Muhammad Ershad's administration)
June 22, 1995... Failed "Legitimization" Strategy and Political Stagnation After it assumed power, the Ershad government began to implement various "corrective" measures prescribed by the IMF, the WB, and donors. The IMF generally prescribes...

Iranian military resurgence: scope, motivations, and implications for regional security.
June 22, 1995... When Hojatoleslam Rafsanjani became the president of Iran in 1989, it was thought that clerical moderation and concern for socioeconomic reconstruction would dominate Iranian foreign relations. This initial assessment was vindicated, it seemed,...

Civil-military agonies in Nigeria: pains of an unaccomplished transition.
June 22, 1995... The armed forces of Nigeria find themselves caught in a mire, largely of their own making. Having governed Africa's most populous country for two-thirds of its independent history, the Nigerian military has once again come up short in its...

Humanitarians or warriors?: Race, gender, and combat status in Operation Restore Hope.
June 22, 1995... Operation Restore Hope in Somalia was a confusing mission for American military personnel. Trained to be warriors for national security, they were sent on an international humanitarian mission.(1) Although they thought they would be...

Military child care: toward an integrated delivery system.
June 22, 1995... Today, roughly half of all military members have one or more children below school age.[1] The total number of dependents under age 5 exceeds 2 million.[2] In more than 60 percent of those families, both parents work -- up from 60 percent in...

The Marine Corps' Search for a Mission: 1880-1898.
June 22, 1995... Jack Shulimson's study of the Marine Corps in the Gilded Age offers a meticulously researched, clearly written account linking the process of officer professionalization with the search for a clearly defined institutional mission. Shulimson...