Regendering the military: Theorizing women’s military participation

Military Innovation and Military Culture

This article examines the significance of culture as a moderator of innovation, and criticizes monolithic accounts of military resistance to innovation. It then describes a dimension of military culture focused on the concept of the ideal combatant, and how that concept relates to innovation. Military culture can be improved by: (1) engineering the competitive context for innovation, and (2) cr...

Warriors Don’t Bowl Alone: Military Service and Civic Participation

Without much evidence, experts on social capital have dismissed the importance of military service on social capital accumulation. We present evidence from the National Survey of Families and Households (Wave 1: 1987-188) that sharply contradicts these claims. Using an index of civic participation calculated from time spent in activities of civic organizations, we find that veterans have signif...

Military medical revolution: military trauma system.

T development and advancement of trauma care has shown stepwise improvements for centuries owing to the interrelationship of civilian and military medical systems. With respect to trauma systems, the sophisticated civilian trauma system in the United States was born directly out of the successes and lessons learned from the Vietnam War. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) took the lead in ad...

Als in the Military Unexpected Consequences of Military Service

The Industrial-military Complex