Restructuring of the Armed Forces

Manigart, Philippe

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“…What used to be a lifelong employment became increasingly contract-based, segmented, and civilianized (Heinecken, 2006, p. 1). Career and advancement prospects became limited while daily work increasingly meant business-type management style and practices (Manigart, 2006;Moelker, 2006). Military personnel engage in foreign operations more than before, leading to "problems of overstretch, undermanning and work-life balance, exacerbating problems of recruitment and retention" (Heinecken, 2006, p. 1).…”

Section: The Dutch Armed Forces: Austerity and Organizational Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Traditionally, military personnel's response to workrelated discontent has been described in terms of a psychological contract-defined as subjective beliefs regarding an unwritten understanding about mutual obligations between an individual and an organization (Rousseau, 1989(Rousseau, , 2001)-which implies that military personnel remain passive in return for protection by the employer (Farley, Walker, & Mendoza, 2006, p. 67). However, following organizational changes in the recent decades (Manigart, 2006;Moskos, 1977), and widespread dissatisfaction (Heinecken, 2009), it was argued that the psychological contract was broken up (Farley et al, 2006, p. 67). Although we know much about how ordinary citizens respond to austerity (e.g., Fominaya & Cox, 2013), systematical study on how military personnel respond to work-related discontent is lacking.…”

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Dealing with austerity measures within armed forces: The Dutch case

Petrović

Stekelenburg

Klandermans

2018

Military Psychology

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This article studies how Dutch military personnel respond to austerity-related discontent. Based on the online survey (N = 579) conducted among military personnel we investigate 4 response strategies to austerity measures applied in the Dutch armed forces: voice (collective protest), exit (leaving the organization), silence (deliberately deciding not to protest), and neglect (engaging in anti-organizational behavior). We focus on how personnel combine these strategies and apply cluster analysis to identify 6 typical response patterns that we label as protesters, escapers, quiescents, conformers, obstructionists and combaters. We investigate how personal characteristics and perception of unique military environment influence the response of military personnel. We conclude that clusters we described are not only distinct in their behavior-their personal characteristics and perceptions differ as well. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: The Dutch Armed Forces: Austerity and Organizational Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Dealing with austerity measures within armed forces: The Dutch case

Petrović

Stekelenburg

Klandermans

2018

Military Psychology

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“…Casualty aversion was full-fledged by the 1990s when significant force reduction was required to finance technology, although, to be sure, casualty aversion escalates in moments when the public questions the legitimacy of wars (Shimko, 2010). The military was not exempt from the broader institutional transformations that marked industrial societies at this time: like other institutions, it too shifted from a labour to capital-intensive organization (Manigart, 2006). The decline of the mass army model complemented a restructuring that emphasized privatization and professionalization (Joachim and Schneiker, 2012; Stachowitsch, 2012).…”

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Drone warfare and the limits of sacrifice

Baggiarini

2015

Journal of International Political Theory

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René Girard argues that violence and the sacred are inseparable, yet how do the political boundaries of sacrifice shift when state violence is privatized and increasingly disembodied? This article provides a Foucauldian challenge to Girard by invoking the mutually reinforcing problem of military privatization and drone warfare. Using Foucauldian work on race and biopolitics, I will explore how military privatization permits states to (precariously) call for the end of sacrifice. I trace the genealogical trajectories of the citizen-soldier to argue that military privatization, as exemplified by the burgeoning industry of private military and security companies and the current American administration's use of drone warfare, allows for the removal of sacrifice as a feature of the post-World War II social contract between states and citizens. Historically, the sacrifices of citizen-soldiers have been consecrated within the boundaries of the nation and memorialized in a way that allows for both the production of shared collective memory and a projected future-oriented discourse of unification through shared national or ethnic destiny. Drones, as the technological extension of the philosophy of military privatization and the high-tech expression of 'pre-modern' violence, reveal tensions between embodied combat, citizenship and sacrifice.

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“…At the same time, other Regiments have been cut and merged. 38 Although many commentators have described this reduction in numbers as "downsizing," 39 the concept of downsizing fails to recognize the true dynamic of current developments. Forces are not simply becoming smaller.…”

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The Special Air Service and the Concentration of Military Power

King

2008

Armed Forces & Society

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In the past decade, Special Operations Forces have attracted much public attention, and, in the United States, a significant academic literature has developed about them. By contrast, few scholars have analyzed 22 Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), Britain's prime Special Operations Forces unit. This is unfortunate. From a peripheral position during the cold war, the SAS has attained a central position in British defense posture. This article analyzes the rise of the SAS as an example of organizational transformation in the armed forces today. The SAS's new prominence may also illustrate the contemporary dynamics of military change more widely.

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Restructuring of the Armed Forces

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Dealing with austerity measures within armed forces: The Dutch case

Dealing with austerity measures within armed forces: The Dutch case

Drone warfare and the limits of sacrifice

The Special Air Service and the Concentration of Military Power

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