In 2008, Russia began to implement its largest military reform since the creation of Red Army in 1918. Previous attempts at reforms 1992, 1997, and 2003 did not result fundamental transformations country’s military. Why was 2008 successful while others were not? This article uses comparative-historical method identify causal mechanisms between Russia’s level external threat, state capacity, int...

background there is significant prevalence of physical injuries sustained by civilian recruits at military training garrisons. civilian recruits sustain these injuries mostly during the intensive and rigorous military combat-training period. objectives we sought to determine the prevalence and causes of oral and maxillofacial injuries as the first step in reducing and preventing them in civilia...

The study of military spending has been an enduring concern within sociology and political science. Methodologically, one the biggest challenges lay in dealing with its heavy-tailed distribution influenced by growing separation between China United States from rest world. In presence outliers along continuum expenditure, we should be paying more attention to portions that don’t assume values re...

This article seeks to develop a manifesto for a sociology concerned with the diverse mobilities of peoples, objects, images, information, and wastes; and of the complex interdependencies between, and social consequences of, such diverse mobilities. A number of key concepts relevant for such a sociology are elaborated: ‘gamekeeping’, networks,  uids, scapes,  ows, complexity and iteration. The...

There is much that is attractive about Michael Burawoy’s examination of the critical turn to a public sociology. I find plausible his account of the academic nature of 1970s radical sociology especially that mobilized notions such as Althusser’s “theoretical practice.” I also was cheered to read the account of the positive developments currently in train in the USA and especially with how socia...

In this article a snapshot of casualty presentations to the UK Role 3 hospital in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, will be briefly described. The observations allow reflection on the advances and strength of clinical provision at the time of the incident, written from a medical command perspective.

Introduction At th e end of a journey to the Beer Sheva, whilc studying the medical aspects of Alle nhy's Palestine Campaigns, I visitcd the British Military Cemetery ror those who were kllled in the area during these campaigns. What began as an aimless visit, soon became a search for RAMC servicemen who might he buried there. An hour later, J stood in front or a tombstone of Captain John FoxRu...

This article is an overview of the contributions of photography to sociology and a discussion of potential uses of photography in sociological research. Visual sociology, after contributing to several studies in the early decades of American sociology, disappeared to reemerge during the 1960s. In the meantime, the use of visual methods in ethnographic description, the study of social processes ...