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

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

What are we protecting?
March 22, 1996... It is truly astounding how little sustained discussion has focused on what exactly nations are attempting to protect through their national security policies. Following the winding down of the Cold War in 1989, the new global security predicament...

Nuclear deterrence, arms control, and multipolarity: an argument for incremental policy change.
March 22, 1996... Nuclear deterrence theory and the policies it engenders are currently under tremendous strain. Recent arms control agreements herald an era of significantly lower (although by no means minimal) force levels. Old notions of threat are less clear,...

German national command structures after unification: a new German general staff?
March 22, 1996... In her seminal analysis of the Federal Ministry of Defense (Bundes-ministerium der Verteidigung - BMVg), Catherine Kelleher wrote that the Federal Republic had probably the "least to offer in terms of lessons that can be generalized for the...

Civil-military relations and democracy: the case of the military-political elites' connection in Israel.
March 22, 1996... The military elite - heading one of the most formidable organizations in the modern state - enjoys considerable power, which may easily be diverted for domestic use. Hence analysts have long recognized the importance of civil-military elite...

Redefining political-military relations in Latin America: issues of the new democratic era.
March 22, 1996... From 1980 to 1990, political (or civil)-military relations in Latin America changed dramatically.(1) From an era in which military roles in politics were characterized by varying styles of authoritarianism, Latin America passed to a new period in...

Military expenditures, health, and education: bedfellows or antagonists in Third World development?
March 22, 1996... Many Third World countries (TWCs), especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, have experienced poor economic and social development in the past three decades. In particular for Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, the 1980s were a...

Suriname: a military and its auxiliaries.
March 22, 1996... Systematic and comparative literature on the role of military auxiliaries in the Caribbean and Latin America is not available.(1) Except for Haiti, where the role of the Duvalierist macoutes has attracted attention - and great misunderstanding -...

High Seas: The Naval Passage to an Uncharted World.
March 22, 1996... The U.S. Army and Air Force emerged from Desert Storm believing that the operational concepts they had developed earlier - air land battle and strategic bombing, respectively - were still valid. The Navy was more doubtful about the efficacy of...

Military intervention in the 1990s: A New Logic of War.
March 22, 1996... Billed as a primer in the theory and practice of cooperative United Nations intervention, this book focuses on why and how multilateral military intervention (coalition warfare) is a necessary and internationally acceptable course of action....

The Arms Production Dilemma: Contraction and Restraint in the World Combat Aircraft Industry.
March 22, 1996... How far and how fast should the nations of East and West reduce their armed forces that were formerly maintained primarily for use against each other? If the principal purpose of these forces is now to help end regional wars, why should not the...

Spec Ops, Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: theory and practice.
March 22, 1996... The likelihood of major interstate war has diminished in the post-Cold War era. Indeed, the Persian Gulf War might be the last large-scale interstate war for many years to come. War itself, however, is still very much alive. In the "New World...

Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam.
March 22, 1996... What distinguishes this book among the growing genre of collective or oral histories is that its nonveteran author previously wrote an acclaimed work on the pacification campaign in a part of the 25th Division's area of operations (The Dynamics...

Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves.
March 22, 1996... Mother Was a Gunner's Mate is a quick, light read. The writing is charming, spunky, and sentimental. However, beyond the "down-home" writing style, with constant (and at times annoying) side comments by the author to herself, this book represents...

Voice from America: A Broadcaster's Diary, 1941-1944.
March 22, 1996... Concurrent with the 50th anniversary of the return of General MacArthur and the American forces to the Philippines, Anvil Publishing released Voice from America by William Winter. The book is a chronology of events in Winter's life as a news...

Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War.
March 22, 1996... Just who might find Vietnam Documents useful is difficult to discern. The skewed selection of documents and the slanted, one-sided, chapter introductions make it unreliable. The editor claims that he chose the documents to "illustrate the...

Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence, 2d ed.
March 22, 1996... Abram Shulsky has written an introductory textbook on the field of intelligence, describing human and technical means of collecting intelligence as well as methods for analyzing and producing intelligence. The book defines covert action,...