Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from March 1999

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from March 1999

Gender composition and group cohesion in U.S. Army units: a comparison across five studies.
March 22, 1999... The gender integration of the United States Armed Services has become a controversial issue in the wake of recent sex scandals that began with the revelation that several female recruits at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, had been coerced...

From integration to segregation: the role of religion in the IDF.(Israeli Defense Force)
March 22, 1999... The role of religion in Israeli military service is so inherently complex that it resists classification in accordance with conventional paradigms. Although certainly the military arm of a secular and liberal state, the Israel Defense Force...

Propensity to serve in the U.S. military: temporal trends and subgroup differences.
March 22, 1999... Since the advent of the all-volunteer military force in the early 1970s, the Department of Defense and the individual services have undertaken large-scale research programs aimed at monitoring the quantity and quality of personnel in the...

Rites of passage and group bonding in the Canadian Airborne.
March 22, 1999... In January 1995, the Canadian public was shocked by videotaped scenes of humiliating and, at times, disgusting initiation rites in One Commando of the Canadian Airborne Regiment (CAR). It may seem incomprehensible to an outsider that the...

Sociological aspects of the Singapore Armed Forces.
March 22, 1999... It is a country with one of the most formidable concentrations of conventional military power per square kilometer of national territory - which is probably one way to describe the military potential of the state of Singapore. The literature...

A different perspective; cohesion, morale, and operational effectiveness in the German army, fall 1994.
March 22, 1999... Gray November skies hung low over the irregular line of foxholes and bunkers that made up the forward positions of the LXXIV Infantry Corps some five months after the Allied invasion of Normandy. On this particular day, as a steady drizzle...

The Desert Fax: a research note on calling home from Somalia.
March 22, 1999... "Boredom, even in combat situations, has long been recognized as a source of stress among soldiers.(1) Contact with home, most commonly through the mail, has been a major means of dealing with boredom and maintaining troop morale. In combat...

Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Noel E. Firth and James H. Noren, Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. Pp. 288. $49.95, hardcover. Students of U.S. national security affairs have been searching...

Citizen Soldiers.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Pp. 512. $27.50, hardcover. Among other things, Stephen E. Ambrose is a prolific and highly successful author of American history in a popular vein. His book on the...

Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Margaret Levi, Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 255. $59.95, hardcover; $19.95, paperback Students of modern conscription are fortunate to have many interesting case studies to draw on as...

The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Robert Buderi, The Invention that Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second Worm War and Launched a Technical Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Pp. 575. $16, paperback. World War II spawned an array...