This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.
Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book considers the benefits of conventional management and organisation theory for the military. At the same time, these essays recognise that the military should be considered as a highly individual organisation, operating in exceptional circumstances. This awareness of the differences between the military and other organisations...
This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.
Gerhard Kummel, Joseph Soeters, Manas Chatterji (Binghamton University, USA)
This volume explores three recent challenges the military faces: changing missions, changing socio-economic and demographic conditions, and end of conscription. The military will have to change its view of the world, the nature of conflicts and its profession considerably.
This volume explores three recent challenges the military faces: changing missions, changing socio-economic and demographic conditions, and end of con...
This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. The military is not just like any organization or profession. It is an organization that is heavily influenced by politics, which dispatches its personnel to far-flung places all over the world, sending them into situations where their lives may be at stake, and is an organization whose operations are often conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy. Studying the military is valuable because it uses collective resources such as the tax payers' money and hires employees that could have earned their...
This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. The military is not just like any organization or pr...
This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions. Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book considers the benefits of conventional management and organisation theory for the military. At the same time, these essays recognise that the military should be considered as a highly individual organisation, operating in exceptional circumstances. This awareness of the differences between the military and other organisations generates important...
This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions. Examining the ch...
