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

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

"An electoral mutiny?" Zhirinovsky and the Russian Armed Forces. (Russian political leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky)
March 22, 1995... Still reeling from the shock of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's victory in the 12 December 1993 Russian elections, observers in Russia and the West soon realized that Zhirinovsky had won not only among a broad spectrum of Russians, but also decisively...

Capabilities-based defense planning: the Australian experience.
March 22, 1995... Prior to the end of the Cold War, most militaries of the Western Alliance planned their force structures primarily on the basis of an identifiable and quantifiable threat. The force planning process, for most participants, was relatively...

The North-South security dialogue in Brazil's technology policy.
March 22, 1995... During much of the Cold War era, the West kept critical advanced technology from flowing east for fear of the military threat such technology might pose to international security. With the end of the Cold War, attention has turned to the...

South African civil-military relations in transition: issues and influences.
March 22, 1995... South Africa's democratization process took another major step forward with the success of the all-race elections held in April 1994. Despite formidable obstacles, changes in political, economic, and social relationships are transforming South...

The looking-glass army: patriotism in the post-Cold War era.
March 22, 1995... Bird sign! Fight for your country - that's the best, the only omen. - Hector Why do men and women join the military, and what motivations shape their continued service? This question has been the subject of an enormous amount of research,...

G.I. phone home: the use of telecommunications by the soldiers of Operation Just Cause.
March 22, 1995... Soldiers stationed in Panama during World War II, anticipating an attack on the Panama Canal, spent much of their time writing letters home, listening to radios, and watching movies, if they were accessible.(1) Today, writing letters continues as...

Was Vietnam a class war?
March 22, 1995... Since defense analyst James Fallows's famous 1975 characterization of Vietnam as a "class war" in which upper-class men were generally spared from fighting or even participation in the armed forces,(1) the perception has become widespread that...

Vietnam-era military service: a test of the class-bias thesis.
March 22, 1995... A number of studies have tested the class-bias thesis that the burden of fighting the Vietnam War was disproportionately born by poor Americans. But findings as well as research methods have been inconsistent, leaving the empirical status of the...

Commanders in Chief: Presidential Leadership in Modern Wars.
March 22, 1995... Senior military leaders have always come under intense scrutiny in postwar periods. Many, like Dwight Eisenhower and George C. Marshall, have survived these examinations and gone on to greater things, while others, such as George B. McClellan,...

The Need to Know.
March 22, 1995... Secret operations and covert activities are employed by governments to influence foreign policy. The single most important characteristic that separates and defines these two actions is that covert operations allow a government not only to pursue...

Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1995... The evolution of control over the deployment and use of nuclear weapons, especially the problem of nuclear custody, is the focus of Peter Douglas Feaver's informative study. Feaver traces the history of U.S. nuclear custody issues and relates his...

Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict.
March 22, 1995... The threat of nuclear war has receded somewhat now that the Cold War is over. After all, the Soviet Union no longer exists, and the United States has taken its finger off the trigger. But the threat certainly hasn't disappeared entirely....

Open Skies, Arms Control and Cooperative Security.
March 22, 1995... States competing antagonistically have occasionally sought security cooperatively through aerial inspection. Importantly, in the last decade negotiators have woven the practice into the fabric of arms control and packaged it with other...

Joint Air Operations: Pursuit of Unity in Command and Control, 1942-1991.
March 22, 1995... Winnefeld's and Johnson's Joint Air Operations is a well written, interesting, and insightful study of how the various American military services have managed, and occasionally failed to manage, to use their air assets effectively when conducting...

Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II.
March 22, 1995... By World War II, there were two modes of strategic bombing. "Area" or "terror" bombing deliberately or heedlessly hazarded noncombatants, while "precision" bombing, sometimes at a risk to airmen, focused on military or war-related facilities to...

In Many a Strife.
March 22, 1995... Amidst such revered marines as Chesty Puller, Merritt Edson, A. A. Vandegrift, and Lemuel Shepherd, stands another equally strong, but much less well-known personality. Gerald C. Thomas served the Marine Corps for thirty-nine years, from 1917 to...

The Struggle for Russia.
March 22, 1995... Although the literati have complained that Boris Yeltsin has been less than fully candid in this, his second political biography, he provides enough information to make it fertile reading for students of civil-military relations. The book opens...

Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present.
March 22, 1995... John Lynn is known for the quality of his scholarship and this anthology, edited under his expert pen, is no exception. The idea for the anthology actually crystallized as the third conference of the Midwest Consortium on Military History. That...