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

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

Attitudes of citizen-soldiers toward military missions in the post-Cold War world.(Special Issue on Peacekeeping)
March 22, 1997... Changes in the structure and missions of the American military in the post-Vietnam War era, and particularly in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact ended the Cold War in Europe, have significantly changed the...

The effectiveness of economic incentives for career commitment of peacekeepers in the Sinai.(Special Issue on Peacekeeping)
March 22, 1997... Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make complete use of the other five. - Somerset Maugham During the post-Cold War era, multinational peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important for both the United Nations...

The role of peacekeepers in the 1990s: Swedish experience in UNPROFOR. (United National Protection Force)(Special Issue on Peacekeeping)
March 22, 1997... During the 1990s, United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions have become more complex and demanding. There are many reasons why. UN missions tried increasingly to deal with intrastate rather than interstate conflicts. With the end of the Cold...

Peacekeeping and the postmodern soldier.(Special Issue on Peacekeeping)
March 22, 1997... Italian armed forces are in the midst of transition away from a modern military organization, whose main mission was deterrence, to a postmodern military organization, whose emergent mission is peacekeeping. The transition continues a larger...

Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam.
March 22, 1997... Almost a quarter of a century after America's involvement in the Vietnam War, a steady stream of scholarly efforts describing and explaining this controversial conflict continue to be published. Each may well serve a purpose within the...

To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas During World War II.
March 22, 1997... Brenda L. Moore served six years of active duty in the U.S. Army in the 1970s. Later, as a doctoral student at the University of Chicago with an interest in military studies, she noticed the "glaring absence" of literature on the military...

Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal.
March 22, 1997... In Reinventing the Pentagon, Fred Thompson and L. R. Jones discuss the causes and consequences of the Pentagon's failure to align its administrative structure with its responsibility structure. In the first section, they demonstrate this by...

World Military Leaders: A Collective and Comparative Analysis.
March 22, 1997... This short, pithy book is characteristic of Dr. Rejai's other publications on political-military leadership: clean, clear, and well written. Rejai and, here, co-author Phillips, get to the point quickly; run out a relevant theory, test it, and...