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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
* Part I Concepts * 1: Anthony King: On Cohesion * 2: Tarak Barkawi: Subaltern Soldiers: Essentialism, Eurocentricism and the Nation-State in the Combat Motivation Debates * 3: Rob Johnson: On Killing: historiography and conceptual issues: contexts and concepts from the First World War to the present * Part II: Current Debates * 4: Eyal Ben Ari: From a Sociology of Units to a Sociology of Combat Formations: Militaries in Urban Combat * 5: Anthony King: Discipline and Punish: EncouragingCombat Performance in the Citizen and Professional Army * Part III: Historical Experience * 6: Antulio Echevarria: Combat and Cohesion in the First World War * 7: Jonathan Fennell: Re-evaluating Combat Cohesion: The British Second Army in the North-west Europe Campaign of the Second World War * Part IV: Case Studies * 8: Garth Pratten: New Model Diggers? Australian Identity, Motivation, and Cohesion in Afghanistan * 9: Patrick Bury and Anthony King: A Profession of Love: Cohesion in a British Infantry Platoon in Afghanistan * 10: Mikaela Sundberg: Hierarchy, Status, and Combat Motivation in the French Foreign Legion * 11: Pascal Vennesson: Cohesion and Misconduct: The French Army and the Mahé Affair * 12: Chiara Ruffa: Cohesion, Political Motivation, and Military Performance in the Italian Alpini * Part V: The Home Front * 13: Leonard Wong and Steven Gerras: Of FOBS and Families * 14: Christopher Dandeker and Simon Wessely: Beyond a Battlefield * 15: Anthony King: The Future of Cohesion
* Part I Concepts * 1: Anthony King: On Cohesion * 2: Tarak Barkawi: Subaltern Soldiers: Essentialism, Eurocentricism and the Nation-State in the Combat Motivation Debates * 3: Rob Johnson: On Killing: historiography and conceptual issues: contexts and concepts from the First World War to the present * Part II: Current Debates * 4: Eyal Ben Ari: From a Sociology of Units to a Sociology of Combat Formations: Militaries in Urban Combat * 5: Anthony King: Discipline and Punish: EncouragingCombat Performance in the Citizen and Professional Army * Part III: Historical Experience * 6: Antulio Echevarria: Combat and Cohesion in the First World War * 7: Jonathan Fennell: Re-evaluating Combat Cohesion: The British Second Army in the North-west Europe Campaign of the Second World War * Part IV: Case Studies * 8: Garth Pratten: New Model Diggers? Australian Identity, Motivation, and Cohesion in Afghanistan * 9: Patrick Bury and Anthony King: A Profession of Love: Cohesion in a British Infantry Platoon in Afghanistan * 10: Mikaela Sundberg: Hierarchy, Status, and Combat Motivation in the French Foreign Legion * 11: Pascal Vennesson: Cohesion and Misconduct: The French Army and the Mahé Affair * 12: Chiara Ruffa: Cohesion, Political Motivation, and Military Performance in the Italian Alpini * Part V: The Home Front * 13: Leonard Wong and Steven Gerras: Of FOBS and Families * 14: Christopher Dandeker and Simon Wessely: Beyond a Battlefield * 15: Anthony King: The Future of Cohesion
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