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

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

Value orientations in military academies: a thirteen country study.
September 22, 1997... Military life is becoming international at a rapid pace. The U.S. Army is actively engaged around the globe, and the number of UN operations, international by definition, is increasing. In Europe, especially, profound changes are taking place...

Warriors for peace: the next generation of U.S. military leaders.
September 22, 1997... The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards. -- Sir William Francis Butler(1) Those who can win...

Are military professionals bound by a higher moral standard?
September 22, 1997... It is commonly believed that, in some sense, military professionals are bound by a higher moral standard. This belief is especially prevalent inside the military. Even though there are occasional (perhaps inevitable) moral failures, there are...

Perceived security threat and the global refuge crisis.
September 22, 1997... Never before has the refugee dilemma been more at the center of international concern. Nor era has generated as many refugees as has the twentieth century, and the outpouring has escalated since the end of the Cold War in 1989 to the point...

The integration of the military in post-liberation South Africa: the contribution of revolutionary armies.
September 22, 1997... This article deals with the integration of the military in South Africa against the background of a negotiated settlement that paved the way for nonracial multiparty elections in 1994. The elections were won by the African National Congress...

Chefs and worried soldiers: authority and power in the Zimbabwe national army.
September 22, 1997... This article paints a preliminary sociopolitical portrait of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) since its creation in 1980. In analyzing the internal political and social dynamics of the development of the ZNA, how its actions and internal and...

Just War: Principles and Cases.
September 22, 1997... In addition to an excellent presentation of the principles governing just-war decision-making and just-war conduct, the significant contribution of this book is its emphasis on the United Nations' role in contemporary just-war theory. Richard...

The Gulf War and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide.
September 22, 1997... This book attempts to discuss, describe, and analyze military mental health services during the Persian Gulf War. The text is broken down into three major parts: (1) Mental Health Services in the Theater of Operations; (2) Coping with the...

Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone.
September 22, 1997... This book is based upon field work carried out in Somalia during 1988-1989 while the author was affiliated with the Central Rangelands Development Project. Once it became apparent that deteriorating conditions in the countryside would not...

Troubled Partnership: A History of U.S.-Japan Collaboration on the FS-X Fighter.
September 22, 1997... Mark Lorell, senior analyst at Rand Corporation, has produced an authoritative work that is a virtual encyclopedia of the Japanese aviation industry in general, and of the evolution of the joint U.S.-Japan FS-X jet fighter project in...

The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in Portugal: Political, Economic, and Military Issues, 1976-1991.
September 22, 1997... This slim volume is an exploration of the consolidation of democracy in Portugal between 1976 and 1991, in which Manuel describes the challenges faced by the Portuguese political parties in setting up a stable parliamentary democracy. He makes...

SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam.
September 22, 1997... War stories are the guts of military history. Before anyone can sit down to the task of dispassionately analyzing the events that make up past wars, someone must set to paper the stories of the men who fought them. The first literature to come...

Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968.
September 22, 1997... This short history of how the United States became involved in Vietnam, what author Michael Hunt calls his "long-delayed exercise in exorcism," is a useful introduction to the war we usually associate with Lyndon Johnson's years in the White...

American Evangelicals and the U.S. Military: 1942-1993.
September 22, 1997... This fine work investigates an area of the interrelationship among the U.S. armed forces and American society that has received comparatively little attention. It is a careful examination of how, as the number of evangelical Protestant...

Uncertain Refuge: Italy and the Jews during the Holocaust.
September 22, 1997... It is rare to find one's attention drawn southward toward Italy when examining the geographical, political, social, and economic locus of the Holocaust. In the public eye, most certainly, the tragic fate that ultimately awaited thousands of...

The Written Wars: American War Prose through the Civil War.
September 22, 1997... Colonel Joseph Cox, professor of English at the U.S. Military Academy, has collected thirty-nine writings by English colonial settlers and Americans presenting their views of armed conflict. Cox contends that these personal letters,...