Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from June 1997

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from June 1997

Eisenhower's ideology in World War II.
June 22, 1997... When a general becomes president, he brings to the White House a complicated, often ambiguous, set of views and attitudes formed by years of military experience. Dwight Eisenhower, the last general to become president, offers an intriguing and...

All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way.
June 22, 1997... In this brief but important work, Moskos and Butler have provided a blueprint for racial integration in American institutions. While the focus is on successful racial integration in the United States Army, the authors' observations can be applied...

Managing Contemporary Conflict: Pillars of Success.
June 22, 1997... The use of military power in the post-Cold War setting has become a complicated enterprise because of the lack of a global rival, an increasing number of threats, and the fact that such threats require more complex solutions than the simple use...

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage.
June 22, 1997... Primitive man may or may not have been a "noble savage," but, according to anthropologist Lawrence H. Keeley, individuals in nonstate societies were anything but peaceful. In War Before Civilization, Keeley sets out to systematically debunk the...

Decisive Force: The New American Way of War.
June 22, 1997... The issue of when and how the United States should use military force has been debated intensely by analysts and policymakers since the disastrous Marine deployment in Beirut, Lebanon, during 1982-1984. The Lebanon debacle, however, as well as a...

Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation.
June 22, 1997... The studies by Moyano and Norden examine organized protest movements in Argentina. Although the types of movements are very different, both authors emphasize internal dynamics to explain why the groups made strategic choices that ultimately...

Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle, 1969-1979.
June 22, 1997... The studies by Moyano and Norden examine organized protest movements in Argentina. Although the types of movements are very different, both authors emphasize internal dynamics to explain why the groups made strategic choices that ultimately...

A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy.
June 22, 1997... Almost thirty years ago, Harold D. Langley, curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, published his well-received Social Reform in the U.S. Navy, 1798-1862. The role played by medical men in...

The Nightingale's Song.
June 22, 1997... Robert Timberg is a Naval Academy graduate, a Marine veteran of Viet Nam, and a journalist. He has drawn on these three experiences to produce a memorable interpretation of the lives of five men and their careers in military and civilian service....