ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a critical take on kinship inside military organizations, with a special view to how social structures, relations and culture reflect and shape gender discourses and practices. The chapter first establishes how kinship may foster an innovative analysis of the social glue in military organizations, among career militaries and veterans. Then it discusses the boundaries of kinship in military organizations, bringing attention to some exclusionary practices that limit women’s participation in this particular brotherhood. Finally, it explores how these dynamics may play out in practical policy and military settings.
