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Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars
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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
chapter 2|20 pages
New directions in military sociology
part Part II|62 pages
New Organizational Forms and Processes
chapter 3|19 pages
Organizational adaptations in the hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
chapter 4|27 pages
Bureaucracies, Networks and Warfare in a Fluid Operating Environment
chapter 5|14 pages
From leading combat units to leading combat formations
part Part III|16 pages
Methodologies for the Study of Military Formations
chapter 6|14 pages
Research approaches to the study of combat formations
part Part IV|60 pages
Glocalized Mission Formations
chapter 7|18 pages
Institutional isomorphic change in South Korea’s UNPKO mission formation
chapter 8|26 pages
“Democracy… 120 mm at a time”
chapter 9|14 pages
Logics battlefield
part Part V|10 pages
Bringing it all Together