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      Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars
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      New Sociological Perspectives

      Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars

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      Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars book

      New Sociological Perspectives
      ByThomas Vladimir Brønd, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Eyal Ben-Ari
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 26 October 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855390
      Pages 204
      eBook ISBN 9780367855390
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      Vladimir Brønd, T., Ben-Shalom, U., & Ben-Ari, E. (2020). Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars: New Sociological Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855390

      ABSTRACT

      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, communication and unit dynamics, or discipline and motivation. While these issues continue to be important, most studies focus on organic units (up to and including brigades). By contrast, this volume suggests the utility of concepts related to mission formations – as opposed to ‘units’ or ‘components’ – to better capture the (ongoing) processual nature of the amalgamations and combinations that military involvement in conflicts necessitates. The study of these formations by the social sciences – sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political science and organization science – requires the introduction of new analytical tools to the study of militaries in theatre. As such, this volume utilizes new approaches to social life, organizational dynamics and to armed violence to understand the place of the armed forces in contemporary conflicts and the new tasks they are assigned.

      This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, security studies and International Relations in general.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part Part I|42 pages

      Introduction and Reflections on the Field

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Introduction

      Mission formations and a new agenda for the study of military units in action 1
      ByEyal Ben-Ari, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Thomas Brond, Carmit Padan

      chapter 2|20 pages

      New directions in military sociology

      Reflections on a book project 15 years later
      ByEric Ouellet

      part Part II|62 pages

      New Organizational Forms and Processes

      chapter 3|19 pages

      Organizational adaptations in the hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

      A review of concepts for analyzing their usefulness 1
      ByWilbur J. Scott

      chapter 4|27 pages

      Bureaucracies, Networks and Warfare in a Fluid Operating Environment

      ByJessica Glicken Turnley

      chapter 5|14 pages

      From leading combat units to leading combat formations

      Modularity, loose systems and temporariness
      ByEyal Ben-Ari

      part Part III|16 pages

      Methodologies for the Study of Military Formations

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Research approaches to the study of combat formations

      A Personal Note
      ByUzi Ben-Shalom

      part Part IV|60 pages

      Glocalized Mission Formations

      chapter 7|18 pages

      Institutional isomorphic change in South Korea’s UNPKO mission formation

      ByInsoo Kim, Young-Il Choi

      chapter 8|26 pages

      “Democracy… 120 mm at a time”

      Mission formations and operational entrapments in post-9/11 Afghanistan
      ByThomas Randrup Pedersen

      chapter 9|14 pages

      Logics battlefield

      IT contracting and military reserves in the Dutch army
      ByJoseph Soeters, Gerold de Gooijer, Paul C. van Fenema, Nuno Oliveira

      part Part V|10 pages

      Bringing it all Together

      chapter 10|8 pages

      Integrative epilogue

      What’s new about the mission formation approach? Thinking through the military–academic juncture
      ByThomas Crosbie
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