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Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars: New Sociological Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars New Sociological Perspectives

Edited By Thomas Vladimir Brønd, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Eyal Ben-Ari Copyright 2021
204 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre. Despite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day of conventional wars. These tools focus on such classic issues as cohesion and leadership,... Read more

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

Biography

Thomas Vladimir Brønd is an Assistant Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College.

Uzi Ben-Shalom is chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ariel University, Israel.

Eyal Ben-Ari is a Research Fellow at the Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace, Israel.

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