Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from June 1998

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from June 1998

Predicting the size of UN peacekeeping operations.
June 22, 1998... The character and the size of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations have changed dramatically over the past fifty years. What began as an experiment in 1948 in sending a small number of unarmed observers to supervise a truce in the Middle...

Persistent collective violence and early warning systems: the case of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
June 22, 1998... South Africa's transition to democracy is considered important for the future not only of this large and diverse country, but for the whole of southern Africa. The orderly demise of the old apartheid regime was far from certain; until mid-1994...

Democratizing civilian control: the Polish case.
June 22, 1998... One of the crucial issues in newly democratizing countries is the establishment of democratic civilian control over the military. Just as democracy is not consolidated when successful elections are held, so too civilian control over the military...

Constabulary attitudes of national guard and regular soldiers in the U.S. Army.
June 22, 1998... The end of the Cold War in Europe has been accompanied by a series of major changes in multinational peacekeeping operations and in patterns of American participation in these missions. This article presents an analysis of the attitudes toward...

The socioeconomic benefits of active military service to reservists.
June 22, 1998... Accession and retention of reservists is a perennial problem for the U.S. Army, particularly during the last decade. The problem is becoming more acute with deployment of reservists during the Persian Gulf War and for operations other than war....

"Managing" the enlisted force: whistling in the wind?
June 22, 1998... Enlisted force management is concerned with meeting national military manpower requirements from the nation's citizens. It attempts to balance the demand for enlisted personnel as determined by the requirements process with a supply of personnel...

A historian's fallacies: a reply to Bacevich. (reply to Andrew J. Bacevich, Armed Forces & Society, vol. 4, p. 447)
June 22, 1998... Peter Feaver, Cori Dauber, and I did not intend to write a comprehensive history of U.S. civil-military relations since 1776 in Volume 24, No. 3, of this journal, but simply to assess the post-Cold War erosion of civil-military relations, first...

Modeling civil-military relations: a reply to Burk and Bacevich. (reply to James Burk and Andrew Bacevich, Armed Forces & Society, vol. 3, pp. 455 and 447)
June 22, 1998... Before responding to the essays written by James Burk and Andrew Bacevich in Volume 24, No. 3 of this journal, it would be helpful to explain more clearly the terms of reference we adopted for the symposium. We took for granted that the audience...

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History.
June 22, 1998... John Lewis Gaddis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 425. $30.00, hardcover. Recording the history of the Cold War is no new occupation, thanks to the importance and the length of the conflict. But it was bound to be a frustrating...

The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal.
June 22, 1998... William H. McMichael, The Mother of All Hooks. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997. Pp. 377. $32.95, hardcover. Tailhook conventions had always been characterized by hard partying and sleazy behavior. The pilots who performed the...

War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II.
June 22, 1998... Nathan Miller, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 592. $17.95, paperback. For specialists there are many books on naval warfare in World War II. Some focus on a particular theater of war, a specific battle or ship, or the biography...