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

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

Civil-military relations reconsidered: a theory of concordance.
September 22, 1995... Why will a military intervene in its own nation's system of government? What conditions promote or inhibit domestic military intervention? These are the central questions of this article. More nations today are engaged in the process of...

Civil-military relations in Ukraine, 1989-1991.
September 22, 1995... Ukraine inherited the second largest armed forces in Europe from the former USSR. After August 1991 the establishment of separate armed and security forces in Ukraine played a central role in the policies of state-building undertaken by...

The nature of Athenian hoplite democracy.
September 22, 1995... The polis had derived from the people in arms; it was essentially the state of the citizens. Both facts made the defence of the state the true concern of its people. There was no question of military service; it was the other way round: the...

Military decision in war: a framework for research.
September 22, 1995... Military decision has always been a central element in conventional warfare. During the Korean War it became apparent that, even in the nuclear age, the old patterns of conventional military confrontation could certainly continue to exist. The...

Schools, enlistment, and military values: the Australian Services Cadet Scheme.
September 22, 1995... Although there is a substantial literature examining the impact of military academies on the values and beliefs of their members,(1) there is little comparable research on school-based military training. The neglect exists in spite of the long...

Self-selection and parental socioeconomic status as determinants of the values of West Point cadets.
September 22, 1995... One of the concerns raised when the U.S. was considering ending peacetime conscription and adopting an all-volunteer military force in the early 1970s was the degree to which such a force would draw its personnel disproportionately from...

Reenlistment intentions of citizen soldiers in the U.S. Army.
September 22, 1995... The relative importance of citizen soldiers in the U.S. Army is likely to increase in the current climate of downsizing the active military force. The U.S. Congress appears to support expansion of this force rather than of the active component...