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9780195133288

The Postmodern Military Armed Forces after the Cold War

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    9780195133288

  • ISBN10:

    0195133285

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-12-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

The end of the Cold War has brought about momentous changes within the armed forces in Western societies. The Postmodern Military examines these changes by presenting a general theoretical model of national military transformation--what the editors define as the "postmodern" military. Thisbook examines contemporary civil-military trends by looking at the militaries of the United States and twelve other Western democracies. An international team of leading military sociologists assesses the postmodern thesis in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, theNetherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Postmodern Military gives the general reader an opportunity to learn what life is really like in today's military and how it is both the same and different around the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
About the Editors and Contributors xiii
Armed Forces after the Cold War
1(13)
Charles C. Moskos
John Allen Williams
David R. Segal
Toward a Postmodern Military: The United States as a Paradigm
14(18)
Charles C. Moskos
The United Kingdom: The Overstretched Military
32(19)
Christopher Dandeker
France: In the Throes of Epoch-Making Change
51(29)
Bernard Boene
Michel Louis Martin
Germany: Forerunner of a Postnational Military?
80(21)
Bernhard Fleckenstein
The Netherlands: The Final Professionalization of the Military
101(20)
Jan S. van der Meulen
Denmark: From Obligation to Option
121(16)
Henning Sorensen
Italy: A Military for What?
137(19)
Marina Nuciari
Canada: Managing Change with Shrinking Resources
156(26)
Franklin C. Pinch
Australia and New Zealand: Contingent and Concordant Militaries
182(23)
Cathy Downes
Switzerland: Between Tradition and Modernity
205(19)
Karl W. Haltiner
Eduard Hirt
Israel: Still Waiting in the Wings
224(18)
Reuven Gal
Stuart A. Cohen
South Africa: Emerging from a Time Warp
242(23)
Jakkie Cilliers
Lindy Heinecken
The Postmodern Military Reconsidered
265(14)
John Allen Williams
Appendix: Post-Gulf War Military Roles of Western Nations 279(4)
Index 283

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