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HONOUR AND CONTRACTS CONTRADICTIONS IN MILITARY COMMAND

HONOUR AND CONTRACTS CONTRADICTIONS IN MILITARY COMMAND Interrelated conflict and transformation are associated with post World War II U.S. military. Conflicts within the command structure are depicted by military officers in their writings. Transformation, characterised by military sociologists as a process of civilianisation, has informed understanding over the past few decades. However, neither the officerwriters closeup perspective nor, in retrospect, the sociologists sanguine formulations effectively interrelate structural transformation and conflicts in command. In this respect, these literatures suggest relevant analogies officerwriters reflect existential crisis not unlike many traditional peoples experiencing consequences of externally induced economic change sociological characterisations of civilianisation, like those of modernisation, fail to account for adverse and conflictual consequences of such development. Both the crisis in command and sociological failures to explicate it may be related to political economy's transformation of the military. That is the argument entailed in this article. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Emerald Publishing

HONOUR AND CONTRACTS CONTRADICTIONS IN MILITARY COMMAND

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Emerald Publishing
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0144-333X
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10.1108/eb012970
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Abstract

Interrelated conflict and transformation are associated with post World War II U.S. military. Conflicts within the command structure are depicted by military officers in their writings. Transformation, characterised by military sociologists as a process of civilianisation, has informed understanding over the past few decades. However, neither the officerwriters closeup perspective nor, in retrospect, the sociologists sanguine formulations effectively interrelate structural transformation and conflicts in command. In this respect, these literatures suggest relevant analogies officerwriters reflect existential crisis not unlike many traditional peoples experiencing consequences of externally induced economic change sociological characterisations of civilianisation, like those of modernisation, fail to account for adverse and conflictual consequences of such development. Both the crisis in command and sociological failures to explicate it may be related to political economy's transformation of the military. That is the argument entailed in this article.

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International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy – Emerald Publishing

Published: Apr 1, 1984

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