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Frontline

Combat and Cohesion in the Twenty-First Century
BuchGebunden
376 Seiten
Englisch
Oxford University Presserschienen am30.07.2015
The volume examines the experiences of professional Western combat soldiers' training and operations in Iraq, and seeks to explain the culture, motivations, and capabilities of the professional soldier in the twenty-first century.mehr
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KlappentextThe volume examines the experiences of professional Western combat soldiers' training and operations in Iraq, and seeks to explain the culture, motivations, and capabilities of the professional soldier in the twenty-first century.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-871966-3
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum30.07.2015
Seiten376 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 236 mm, Dicke 28 mm
Gewicht726 g
Artikel-Nr.34647497

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I CONCEPTS ; 1. On Cohesion ; 2. Subaltern Soldiers: Essentialism, Eurocentricism and the Nation-State in the Combat Motivation Debates ; 3. On Killing: historiography and conceptual issues: contexts and concepts from the First World War to the present ; PART II: CURRENT DEBATES ; 4. From a Sociology of Units to a Sociology of Combat Formations: Militaries in Urban Combat ; 5. Discipline and Punish: EncouragingCombat Performance in the Citizen and Professional Army ; PART III: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE ; 6. Combat and Cohesion in the First World War ; 7. Re-evaluating Combat Cohesion: The British Second Army in the North-west Europe Campaign of the Second World War ; PART IV: CASE STUDIES ; 8. New Model Diggers? Australian Identity, Motivation, and Cohesion in Afghanistan ; 9. A Profession of Love: Cohesion in a British Infantry Platoon in Afghanistan ; 10. Hierarchy, Status, and Combat Motivation in the French Foreign Legion ; 11. Cohesion and Misconduct: The French Army and the Mahe Affair ; 12. Cohesion, Political Motivation, and Military Performance in the Italian Alpini ; PART V: THE HOME FRONT ; 13. Of FOBS and Families ; 14. Beyond a Battlefield ; 15. The Future of Cohesionmehr

Autor

Anthony King is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. He has written on sport, social theory, and the armed forces including his most recent books The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces (Cambridge University Press 2011) and The Combat Soldier (Oxford University Press 2013). He is currently working on a book on divisional headquarters. He has acted as a mentor and adviser to the armed forces for a number of years including membership of NATO's ISAF RC (South) Prism Cell in 2009-10 in Kandahar.