Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars: New Sociological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367427153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 194 str.

Thomas Vladimir Brond; Uzi Ben-Shalom; Eyal Ben-Ari

Opis

This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre.

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Part I: Introduction and Reflections on the Field  1. Mission Formations and a New Agenda for the Study of Military Units in Action Eyal Ben-Ari, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Thomas Brønd and Carmit Padan  2. New Directions in Military Sociology: Reflections on a Book Project Fifteen Years Later Eric Ouellet  Part II: New Organizational Forms and Processes  3. Organizational Adaptations in the Hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A Review of Concepts for Analyzing Their Usefulness Wilbur Scott  4. Bureaucracies, Networks and Warfare in a Fluid Operating Environment Jessica Glicken Turnley  5. From Leading Combat Units to Leading Combat Formations: Modularity, Loose Systems, and Temporariness Eyal Ben-Ari  Part III: Methodologies for the Study of Military Formations  6. Research Approaches for the Study of Combat Formations – A Personal Note Uzi Ben-Shalom  Part IV: Glocalized Mission Formations  7. Institutional Isomorphic Change in South Korea’s UNPKO Mission Formation  Insoo Kim and Young-Il Choi  8. ‘Democracy… 120 mm at a Time’: Mission Formations and Operational Entrapments in Post-9/11 Afghanistan Thomas Randrup Pedersen  9. Logics battlefield: IT Contracting and Military Reserves in the Dutch Army Joseph Soeters, Gerold de Gooijer, Paul C. van Fenema and Nuno Oliveira  Part V: Bringing it all Together  10. Integrative Epilogue: What’s New About the Mission Formations Approach? Thinking Through the Military-Academic Juncture Thomas Crosbie