Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from June 1996

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from June 1996

The evolving Clinton doctrine on the use of force.
June 22, 1996... There is a set of principles on the use of force that has evolved during the Clinton Administration and now stands as the consensus guidelines for future military actions. It differs from past criteria in notable ways, but primarily in its...

Cohesion and readiness in gender-integrated combat service support units: the impact of acceptance of women and gender ratio.
June 22, 1996... Since the end of the male draft in 1973, and the beginning of the all-volunteer force, the percentage of women in the U.S. military has increased from 1.6% in 1973 to 8.5% in 1980 to 11.8% in 1993.(1) Currently, around 200,000 women serve in the...

American civil-military relations and military government: the service of Colonel Alexander Doniphan in the Mexican War.
June 22, 1996... United States Army officers involved themselves in civil affairs in several ways prior to the war with Mexico. Officers faced a number of civil affairs issues in the early 1800s while assisting the operation of government in the U.S. territories,...

Statebuilding and political priorities in post-Soviet Ukraine: the role of the Military.
June 22, 1996... The emergence of Soviet successor states following the collapse of the USSR in 1991 poses important questions for scholars interested in statehood in the contemporary world. The region's polities are trying to build new sovereign institutions,...

South Africa's arms industry: a new era of democratic accountability?
June 22, 1996... Impelled by the United Nations arms embargoes levied against it in the 1960s and 1970s, apartheid South Africa developed a formidable domestic arms industry in support of an equally formidable national defense force.(1) Ironically, despite its...

The military and democracy in the Third Turkish Republic.
June 22, 1996... From the inception of the Ottoman Empire (1299) to the present, the military in Turkey has often played a significant role in the polity. The Ottoman state was born as a "warrior state."(1) In the early centuries of the Ottoman rule, many...

At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government, 1955-1975.
June 22, 1996... As these books make abundantly clear, there was once a "secret war" in Laos, a crucial sideshow to the conflict spinning out of control in neighboring South Vietnam. The characterization is partly hype, partly truth. Actually, the basic framework...

Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Vietnam.
June 22, 1996... As these books make abundantly clear, there was once a "secret war" in Laos, a crucial sideshow to the conflict spinning out of control in neighboring South Vietnam. The characterization is partly hype, partly truth. Actually, the basic framework...

Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam.
June 22, 1996... As these books make abundantly clear, there was once a "secret war" in Laos, a crucial sideshow to the conflict spinning out of control in neighboring South Vietnam. The characterization is partly hype, partly truth. Actually, the basic framework...

Codename Mule: Fighting the Secret War in Laos for the CIA.
June 22, 1996... As these books make abundantly clear, there was once a "secret war" in Laos, a crucial sideshow to the conflict spinning out of control in neighboring South Vietnam. The characterization is partly hype, partly truth. Actually, the basic framework...

Reporting the News from China.
June 22, 1996... Since the adoption of the reform and the opening up of policies in the late 1970s, information about China has become more accessible to outsiders. However, although direct contact with China through tourism, business, and educational exchange...

Paradigm Lost? Transitions and the Search for a New World Order.
June 22, 1996... These two books agree that the end of the Cold War has changed the global terrain of national security issues. Jablonsky's work presents a broad theoretical perspective, while Haass's occupies the middle range. But both contend that national and...

Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World.
June 22, 1996... These two books agree that the end of the Cold War has changed the global terrain of national security issues. Jablonsky's work presents a broad theoretical perspective, while Haass's occupies the middle range. But both contend that national and...

The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii.
June 22, 1996... "This is a strange land and they keep telling me I am in the US, but from the time I walked off the ship I have doubted it." This quote introduces Bailey and Farber's text, its subtitle promising a book about race and sex in World War II Hawaii....

Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason.
June 22, 1996... The crew members of the USS Mason were the only blacks in the Navy to take a warship into battle. Mary Pat Kelly, a writer and filmmaker with a doctorate in English, interviewed these former sailors as part of a larger documentary film project...

Armed with Cameras: The American Military Photographers of World War II.
June 22, 1996... Maslowski came to the task of researching his book with a fine pedigree, as the son of Karl Maslowski, the noted wildlife photographer and World War II military photographer. Along with his academic credentials in military history, his background...