This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research methods used, especially in relation to qualitative methods. The data that form the basis of the researchers' analyses are often presented as if they were immediately available, rather than as a product of interaction between the researcher and those who participated in the research. Comprising essays by...
This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and ...
This text explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. This book tackles how contemporary American and British military culture is formed/sustained and how it influences the outlook, practices and force structures of armed forces in the US and UK today.
This text explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. This book tackles how contemporary Ame...
This work offers a detailed examination of the professional military education system in the United States, from a critical, insider's perspective. The volume examines the system that created and supports the perpetuation of this system, and why it is imperative that it be fixed.
This work offers a detailed examination of the professional military education system in the United States, from a critical, insider's perspective. Th...
This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory. The text accounts for the most important theories within the field by developing and analysing these theories, as well as problematising both their normative and explanatory aims. It is a book about military theory that does not only reflect a single way of relating to knowledge of war and warfare. Indeed, it is precisely by introducing contrasting perspectives as well as constantly criticising the theories that learning is furthered.
This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory. The text accounts for the most important the...
Khedive Ismail's Army examines military failure in the age of imperialism.
On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seems a formidable regional power. It had a tradition of success, modern weapons, and mercenary officers with experience in major wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, hoped to combine the imported technology and brains with native manpower, and establish an Egyptian dominated Horn of Africa. His soldiers did conquer parts of the Sudan, but they suffered disastrous defeats during the Egyptian Abyssinian War of 1875 to 1876.
Presenting the first...
Khedive Ismail's Army examines military failure in the age of imperialism.
On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seem...
Clausewitz suggested that war is fought by states for political ends, but that does not appear to have been the pattern in Africa. This volume explores how alternative social organisations have used war as a political instrument, refining the classic theory in the contexts of 'failed states'.
Clausewitz suggested that war is fought by states for political ends, but that does not appear to have been the pattern in Africa. This volume explore...
This unique study of military unionism shows how the changing nature of present day conflicts has made soldier representation more important then ever. This new collection of essays clearly establish the key factors in the military union debate in recent years and highlight the mechanisms different armed forces have created to deal with the aspirations of their members. Core issues covered include: the nature of organizational and force restructuring since the end of the Cold War the new structures of military employment changes in value systems, such as rising individualism and the new...
This unique study of military unionism shows how the changing nature of present day conflicts has made soldier representation more important then ever...
These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and this book makes them available for the first time in print. Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the Russians during the greatest crisis in their history. Both Reds and Whites realized Rostov's vital strategic importance, and the city changed hands six times between 1917 and 1920. These newly published personal stories fill out the social background to its complex mix of classes and nationalities. They convey the daily experience of...
These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and this book makes them available for the first time in print. Since becoming free...
This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science.
Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing "War on Terror," serious divergences over what the message of the "new" military doctrine ought to be were expected around the world. However, such questions are often drowned in ferocious meta-doctrinal disagreements. What" is" a doctrine, after all?
This book provides a theoretical understanding of such questions. Divided into three parts, the author...
This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science.
A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term intervention escalated into a lengthy war of intervention.
It clearly details how in January 1965 Cuba formed an alliance with the Angolan MPLA which evolved into the flagship of its global 'internationalist' mission, spawning the military intervention of November 1975 culminating in Cuba's spurious 'victory' at Cuito Cuanavale and Cuba's fifteen-year occupation of Angola.
Drawing on interviews with leading protagonists, first-hand...
A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term interven...
