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

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

The definite end of the mass army in Western Europe?
September 22, 1998... On 23 August 1793, the new revolutionary regime in France ordered the levee en masse, the duty of all citizens to do military service, a decree that was gradually issued by other nations as well.(1) Thus mass armies based on universal...

The U.S. as a "hot zone": the necessity for medical defense.
September 22, 1998... The "Hot Zone" In recent years, the possibility of an epidemic of an unknown, deadly disease has captured some attention within popular public imagination. Richard Preston's The Hot Zone (1994) seems to have begun this phenomenon, and...

Does enlistment propensity predict accession? High school seniors' plans and subsequent behavior.
September 22, 1998... The United States ended military conscription in 1973 and undertook, for the first time, the task of maintaining a large peacetime force based on voluntary enlistment. The nation implicitly substituted a marketplace philosophy of military...

Value changes in four cohorts at the U.S. Military Academy.
September 22, 1998... Values are a central concern of military leadership doctrine,(1) as well as a classic concern of sociology,(2) yet have rarely been studied in college-level military education. General interest in assessing the developmental impact of higher...

Durkheim's "heroic suicide" in military combat.(French sociologist Emile Durkheim)
September 22, 1998... Heroes are born from military combat. The context of battle, with its pressing danger, constant uncertainty, and presence of death, leads some warriors to behave in exceptionally heroic ways. Some of these heroes may even sacrifice their lives...

Air Force pilot retention: evaluating the results of alternative models.
September 22, 1998... The ability to predict officer retention behavior is critical for effective planning for the Air Force officer corps. Although aggregate officer retention has been the focus of much past research, this study represents an effort to improve upon...

Civil armies, civil societies, and NATO's enlargement.
September 22, 1998... No longer is there any turning back from NATO's metamorphosis. From a Cold War alliance designed to deter or defeat aggression by Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces, NATO will enter the twenty-first century as a much different organization. By...

Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Non-Violence.(Review)
September 22, 1998... R. J. Rummel, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997. Pp. 246. $32.95, hardcover. Would anyone really be surprised to learn that democracies engage in fewer wars than nondemocracies and kill fewer of their own citizens than...

To Sheathe the Sword: Civil-Military Relations in the Quest for Democracy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... John P. Lovell and David E. Albright, eds., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. 230. $59.95, hardcover. This volume consists of a number of papers presented at a conference held at Indiana University in October 1994, which have been...

Making the Corps.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Thomas E. Ricks, New York: Scribner, 1997. Pp. 320. $24.00, hardcover. Although Ricks, at his wife's suggestion, titled his book Making the Corps, two-thirds is devoted to the process of forging the Corps' main ingredient, the foot...

The Downsized Warrior: America's Army in Transition.(Review)
September 22, 1998... David McCormick. New York and London: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. 267. $24.95, cloth. The United States Army that so convincingly won the Persian Gulf War just seven years ago was a force of 770,000 active-duty soldiers. The army...

Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Michael W. Doyle. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. Pp. 557. $30.00, hardcover. This is a very important book that effectively applies rich, diverse insights from more than two millennia of intellectual history about politics to the present and...

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Donald Kagan. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Pp. 606. $15.95, paperback. Taken at face value, Donald Kagan (a professor of history, classics and western civilization at Yale University) has provided a "comparative narrative history" of the...

Why the Allies Won.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Richard Overy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. Pp. 396. $29.95, hardcover. Karl von Clausewitz tells us that war is a function of a trinity of the government, the military, and the populace. Few histories attempt to integrate those three...

Non-Lethal Weapons: A Fatal Attraction? Military Strategies and Technologies for 21st-Century Conflict.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Nick Lewer and Steven Schofield. London and New York: Zed Books (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1997. Pp. 158. $55.00, hardcover; $19.95, paperback. When the Marines faced potentially hostile crowds during UN troop withdrawals from...

The definite end of the mass army in Western Europe?
September 22, 1998... On 23 August 1793, the new revolutionary regime in France ordered the levee en masse, the duty of all citizens to do military service, a decree that was gradually issued by other nations as well.(1) Thus mass armies based on universal...

The U.S. as a "hot zone": the necessity for medical defense.
September 22, 1998... The "Hot Zone" In recent years, the possibility of an epidemic of an unknown, deadly disease has captured some attention within popular public imagination. Richard Preston's The Hot Zone (1994) seems to have begun this phenomenon, and...

Does enlistment propensity predict accession? High school seniors' plans and subsequent behavior.
September 22, 1998... The United States ended military conscription in 1973 and undertook, for the first time, the task of maintaining a large peacetime force based on voluntary enlistment. The nation implicitly substituted a marketplace philosophy of military...

Value changes in four cohorts at the U.S. Military Academy.
September 22, 1998... Values are a central concern of military leadership doctrine,(1) as well as a classic concern of sociology,(2) yet have rarely been studied in college-level military education. General interest in assessing the developmental impact of higher...

Durkheim's "heroic suicide" in military combat.(French sociologist Emile Durkheim)
September 22, 1998... Heroes are born from military combat. The context of battle, with its pressing danger, constant uncertainty, and presence of death, leads some warriors to behave in exceptionally heroic ways. Some of these heroes may even sacrifice their lives...

Air Force pilot retention: evaluating the results of alternative models.
September 22, 1998... The ability to predict officer retention behavior is critical for effective planning for the Air Force officer corps. Although aggregate officer retention has been the focus of much past research, this study represents an effort to improve upon...

Civil armies, civil societies, and NATO's enlargement.
September 22, 1998... No longer is there any turning back from NATO's metamorphosis. From a Cold War alliance designed to deter or defeat aggression by Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces, NATO will enter the twenty-first century as a much different organization. By...

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace.
September 22, 1998... Donald Kagan. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Pp. 606. $15.95, paperback. Taken at face value, Donald Kagan (a professor of history, classics and western civilization at Yale University) has provided a "comparative narrative history" of the...