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King, Anthony (2021) Broadening the perspective on military cohesion? A reply. Armed Forces & Society, 47 (3). pp. 586-595. doi:10.1177/0095327X20947150
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327X20947150
Abstract
In 2018, Ilmari Käihkö published a special collection in Armed Forces & Society on the debate about small unit cohesion. Later, in reaction to a response by Guy Siebold, he published a further intervention with Peter Haldén. Focusing on my 2006 article in the journal and my subsequent debate, Käihkö has claimed that the cohesion debate is too narrow. It ignores organizational factors in the armed forces and wider political factors, including nationalism and state policy. Consequently, it is incapable of analyzing non-Western state or irregular forces and is only relevant for the 20th and 21st centuries. This response shows that while Käihkö’s extension of the empirical archive to non-Western armed groups is to be welcomed, none of his theoretical claims are sustainable
| Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | U Military Science > U Military Science (General) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Unit cohesion (Military science), Eurocentrism, Combat, Psychology, Military | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Armed Forces & Society | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0095-327X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 47 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 586-595 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0095327X20947150 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 August 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 August 2022 |
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