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

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

Once burned, twice cautious: explaining the Weinberger-Powell doctrine .
March 22, 1998... The American military has been profoundly reluctant to use force in the post-Cold War era. Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, Bosnia, and eastern Zaire are cases in point. Whenever civilian leaders in the Bush and Clinton administrations have suggested...

Conflicting indicators of "crisis" in American civil-military relations.
March 22, 1998... Using a variety of indicators, many analysts have argued that American civil-military relations are in a state of crisis, in which the military threatens to run free from civilian control.(1) The indicators analysts have used to suggest that...

Soldiers, states, and structures: the end of the Cold War and weakening U.S. civilian control.
March 22, 1998... The end of the Cold War has coincided with a deterioration in the relationship between civilian authority and the military institution in the United States. While there is no "crisis" in U.S. post-Cold War civil-military relations,(1) it seems...

Crisis as shirking: an agency theory explanation of the souring of American civil-military relations.
March 22, 1998... It is tempting to blame the alleged crisis in American civil-military relations simply on personalities.(1) The peccadillos and personal endowments of key individuals loom large: President Clinton's avoidance of the draft, the late-Secretary...

The practice of argument: reading the condition of civil-military relations.
March 22, 1998... Is there a crisis today in civil-military relations in the United States? Speaking from the perspective of a scholar in Argumentation Studies, I would say yes, but would characterize and conceptualize that crisis somewhat differently than a...

Absent history: a comment on Dauber, Desch, and Feaver. (in this issue, pp. 389-446)
March 22, 1998... In American historical mythology, the contest for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 is forever linked to nefarious dealings in the famous "smoke-filled room." More usefully, it ought to be remembered as the year when the general...

The logic of crisis and civil-military relations theory: a comment on Desch, Feaver, and Dauber. (in this issue, pp. 389-446)
March 22, 1998... If asked how civil-military relations in the United States should be organized, we would say without hesitation that whatever is done must ensure civilian control over the military. We start from the belief that the military's subordination to...

Nonlethal Weapons: War Without Death.
March 22, 1998... David A. Morehouse. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. Pp. 142. $55.00, hardcover. This work is intended to be more than a monograph describing new weapons technologies. It is both a discussion of the relations and connections between a nation's...

Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps During World War II.
March 22, 1998... Leisa D. Meyer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. 260. $29.50, hardcover. The military role of women has been a source of contention since the earliest military operations in America's history. While the basis of the controversy...

The Military and the Making of Modern South Africa.
March 22, 1998... Annette Seegers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. 356. $59.50, hardcover. Students of comparative civil-military affairs, as well as Africanists, have long been intrigued with South African military politics, usually not so much for...

Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea.
March 22, 1998... William T. Bowers, William M. Hammond, and George L. MacGarrigle. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, 1996. Pp. 294. $32.00, cloth; $26.00, paper. Controversy over Black Soldier, White Army surfaced even before it...

The Unknown Soldiers: African American Troops in World War I.
March 22, 1998... Arthur Barbeau and Florette Henri. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. Pp. 201. $14.95, paperback. The Unknown Soldiers is about the thais and tribulations of African American soldiers in World War I, and how racism and hatred occupied all...

A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975.
March 22, 1998... Robert D. Schulzinger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 397. $35.00, hardcover. Despite continuing public and student interest in America's war in Vietnam, few studies have appeared that might be used as comprehensive texts...