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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100815332378
ISBN-139780815332374
eBay Product ID (ePID)1009723
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameMilitary-State-Society Symbiosis
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
SubjectSociology / General, Military / General, Regional Studies, General
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter Karsten
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History
SeriesMilitary and Society Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight23.2 Oz
Item Length6 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN98-042475
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number5
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.2/7
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThese five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems serve nations; they may also reflect them. Soldiers are enlisted; they may also be said to self-select. Military units have missions; they also have interests. In an older, more traditional military history, while the second reflects a newer approach. Although each statement in the pairs may be said to be true, the former speak from the framework of the military sciences; the latter, from the framework of the social and behavioral sciences. The military systems of our past differ from one another over time, in political origins, size, missions, and technological and tactical fashions, but to a great extent their historical experiences have been more noticeably similar than they were different. When we ask questions about the recruiting, training, or motivating of military systems, or of those systems' interactions with civilian governments and with the greater society, as do the essays in these five volumes of reading on The Military and Society we are struck by the almost timeless patterns of continuity and similarity of experience. In each of these volumes approximately half of the essays selected deal with the experience in the United States; the other half, with the experiences of other states and times, enabling the reader to engage in comparative analysis.
LC Classification NumberU21.5.M54 1998
