Advancing Military Practice through Military Humanities

Introduction: The Military and the Humanities, Anne Marie Hagen and Kjetil Enstad  Part 1 - Military Humanities and the Foundations of Military Thinking  1. The Historical Origins of Strategic Studies, Beatrice Heuser  2. Critical Thinking Applied to Leadership and Professional Military Education, Ilaria De Santis  3. Critical Thinking and the Ghost of the Humanities in Military Education, Michaela Vance  4. Thinking in Military Terms – Discourse and Judgement in the Military Profession, Kjetil Enstad  Part 2 – Sensemaking and Navigating the Unknown  5. Fake News, Real Threat: Linguistics as a Line of Defence Against Disinformation, Silje Susanne Alvestad and Nele Põldvere  6. Military Ethics Training and Education for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Aleksandra Gulasarayan and David Whetham  7. Learning Leadership Through Literature in Professional Military Education, Anne Marie Hagen  8. Beyond Doctrine – Harmonizing Meaning in Military Planning, Johan Ivari and Annette Nolan  Part 3 – Recognising New Contexts for Foundational Knowledge  9. What is Military History and what is its Utility for the Military Profession?, Steve Murdoch  10. Digital Methods for Military Humanities: Advancing Research on and in the Military, Tamir Libel and David Beck  11. Historiography: Teaching Critical Thinking, Empathy, and Professional Judgment, Michael Schmitz  12. Forging Uniform Identity? Ukraine’s Military Culture and Symbolism in the Post-Soviet Era, Piotr Wawrzeniuk  Part 4 - Becoming a Military Professional  13. Recognizing the Experience of Others: Military Memoirs as a Pedagogy of Understanding, Marshall Gerbrandt  14. Top Gun: The Sound of Freedom, Eirik Askerøi and Kyrre Tromm Lindvig  15. Embodiment as a Research Topic and Method in the Military Humanities, Tua Sandman and Marcel Mangold

Biography

Anne Marie Hagen is Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College.

Kjetil Enstad is Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College.

'This is a groundbreaking work that places humanities at the center of military inquiry.  Hagen and Enstad’s foundational text provides a series of case studies that illustrate how humanities fields […] offer unique, critical interpretive methodologies essential for military decision making in today’s ambiguous conflict environments.'

Paula Holmes-Eber, PhD, Affiliate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

'While new technologies are changing the character of the military profession, its nature remains human. […] This book’s examination of humanities as the best means of instilling the necessary character, creativity and links to society in contemporary military leaders is timely and a vital issue for modern military organisations.'

Mick Ryan, Major General (ret.) Australian Army, adjunct fellow of Center for Strategic and International Studies