Taking the example of military education and everyday life in the Swiss army during the World War II. this article aims to address two issues that have so far only found marginal consideration in most studies of military history. First. the article attempts to explore in what way the military hierarchy was gendered. thus borrowing from Joan Scott's argument that the category of gender can be us...

In a radical shift from the previous doctrine of repower, attrition, and destruction during the Vietnam era, the current \airland battle" military doctrine is characterized by four key ingredients { depth, initiative, agility, and synchronization. The term, synchronization, implies bringing to bear, at one time and place, the combined power of maneuver, artillery, air, deception, and other syst...

WHEN U.S. President George W. Bush declared an end to Phase III (Decisive Operations) of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) on 1 May 2003, one could almost hear the global sigh of relief from a world that naively assumed the “hard work” was finished.2 But those in a position to appreciate the complex operational environment understood all too well that the hard work was far from over. Operation Iraq...

Background: Military medicine is one of the important orders of military systems that takes responsibility for providing health services to the military forces. Military physicians need knowledge and skills required for their role. In today's world, different countries have designed and developed certain activities and curricula for military medical education at general and pro...

after 11 september attack, anticipatory self defense has obtained specific situation in the doctrine ,of western states. these countries with financial and military power are seeking to justify this doctrine. this type of defense is contrary to article 51 of the charter of united nations that expresses the concept of self defense. in this paper, the authors are going to verify and show that thi...

Military theories are thoughts explaining how armed forces to be used achieve objectives. These often influenced by emotions, yet the influence of emotions on military theory-crafting remains underexplored. This article fills gap exploring awe influences theorising. Awe is an emotion associated with feeling transcendence. Several theorists felt that way about technologies air power, nuclear pow...

Military interventions have an important place in the Turkish Political History. Military interventions are commonly called coup in the society. By coup we mean that the armed forces seize political power either by a group of officer in the army or by chain of command. Coups not only weaken but also suspend the democracy in a country. All periods of coup created its own victims. Two military co...

the eight years of the imposed war was full of successes and defeats, brilliant and bad memories. this holly defense taught us many valuable lessons. by the time this war was imposed, our country was recovering from the aftermaths of the revolution and the armed forces were not in perfect state. though, our armed forces accompanied with our brave people could stop the invaders. recapturing oper...

From Partition to the present day, India has displayed an ability to sustain democratic forms of government and politics. There have been no military bids for power and even Mrs. Gandhi’s months of emergency rule, which many thought perilously close to a dictatorship, was ended by the electors’ verdict in 1977. Despite phases of acute domestic strain and communal violence, the assassination of ...

Objectives. We seek to investigate the determinants of corruption in authoritarian polities. We hypothesize that corruption in nondemocratic settings will be greater where the ruling group is personalistic rather than a political party or a military clique and that it will be greater where rulers expect to remain in power longer. We construct a new operationalization of the selectorate theory a...