ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts only to indicate where sociology has been of practical value to the armed services, and to outline some of the peculiarities of the military establishment particularly interesting to the sociologist. The impatient layman may feel that many of the points somewhat ponderously made by Dr. Janowitz are obvious to the common sense of the intelligent observer and could be much more pithily expressed. He analyses the change which new weapons-systems and new forms of warfare are effecting in the traditional format of the armed services, and the tensions which thereby result. He dwells on the different functions, of command and co-ordination, which confront the officer, and the difficulty of devising a training system to develop both forms of skill. Dr. Janowitz shows the sort of contribution which applied sociology has made and can make to solving problems of military organization.
