This paper analyzes military families as the intersection of two societal institutions, both of which make great demands on individuals in terms of commitment, loyalty, time, and energy. It shows the increasing conflict between these two "greedy institutions' due to various trends in American society and military family patterns. The demands that American armed forces…
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Armed Forces & Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Defense, Military, and Policy Studies, Military History and Strategy, Gender, Security, and Conflict.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Armed Forces & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Defense, Military, and Policy Studies Military History and Strategy Gender, Security, and Conflict Military and Defense Studies International Relations and Foreign Policy |
| ISSN | 0095-327X |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.4 |
| h-index | 71 |
| i10-index | 820 |
| Total citations | 31,387 |
| Top institutions publishing here | United States Military Academy |
| Journal website | afs.sagepub.com |
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The alleged crisis in American civil-military relations has revived a long-standing theoretical debate about the determinants of civilian control. So far, the debate has followed lines of analysis laid by the original dispute between Samuel Huntington and Morris Janowitz. Viewed from a post-Cold War perspective, however, neither model is attractive. In this article, I define…
This article reviews civil-military relations theory applied to mature democratic states. It assumes that the important theoretical problem is how to maintain a military that sustains and protects democratic values, showing how the classic and still influential theories of Huntington and Janowitz were rooted, respectively, in liberal and civic republican theories of democracy and, as…
In July 2006, Armed Forces & Society published an article by Anthony King, “The Word of Command: Communication and Cohesion in the Military.” This commentary takes exception to certain statements and conclusions in King's article, and in the process, sketches a standard model of military group cohesion. This model is based on social integration in…