The Decline of the European Mass Armies

Haltiner, Karl W.

doi:10.1007/0-387-34576-0_21

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“…Opposition to political-military structures has increased in Western countries since the 1970s (Haltiner, 2006). The situation is similar properties in Turkey last 20 years, military power or tutelage is attempted to be controlled by the civil power.…”

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The Stress Levels of Employees in an Organization with Liminal Status: The Case of Gendarmerie in Turkey

Kocanli¹,

Kasapoğlu²

2021

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This study focuses on the stress levels as an expression of the difficulties experienced by the personnel working in a janus-faced mixed organization with both military and civilian characteristics. In order to overcome the "institution" and "occupation" distinction which is essential in military sociology studies, the focus has been on "uncertainties" rather than "essentialism" from a relational sociological perspective. In this context, both uncertainties in social relations (ambage) and uncertainties in values (ambiquity) have been tried to be analyzed by making use of sociology literature. The originality of this study is that it was conducted with a law enforcement force with military status trying to cope with foreigners coming as a result of irregular migration in their own country, instead of military personnel who were previously employed in a foreign society outside their own country (Azari et al., 2010). Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, an online survey study was carried out with 44 people, including officers and non-commissioned officers. With the advantage that one of the researchers is a senior officer and the other is a senior sociologist, the data were analyzed and interpreted with the SPSS/25 program. Analyzes using advanced statistical techniques revealed that there was no significant relationship between stress and tenure and status, in other words, perceived stress did not differ according to these independent variables. Factor analysis results revealed that while the staff working in an organization with liminal status were more affected by both "institutional" and" occupational" stress factors, they were in a more positive situation in terms of stress measured by scale items that could be considered personal. At the end of the research, some suggestions were made for the development of military sociology.

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The Stress Levels of Employees in an Organization with Liminal Status: The Case of Gendarmerie in Turkey

Kocanli¹,

Kasapoğlu²

2021

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“…The armed forces variables include military accession policies, subculture ideology, organizational structure, and purpose/function of the armed forces. Volunteer accession policies are more likely to support women’s participation (Boulegue, 1991; Caforio, 2007; Haltiner, 2006; Martin, 1982) and policies related to family inclusion and quality of life such as military clothing and benefits are positively related to women’s participation. Women’s involvement in the military increases when the military is employed in more defensive operations, there is less elitist warrior ideology, the military is organized with less hierarchical structure, and there are increased opportunities across noncombat and support roles (Iskra, Trainor, Leithauser, & Segal, 2002; Sandhoff, Segal, & Segal, 2010; Segal, 1995).…”

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Women’s Participation in the Jordanian Military and Police: An Exploration of Perceptions and Aspirations

Maffey

Smith

2018

Armed Forces & Society

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Cross-national research contends that women’s military participation has been associated with military function and organization, social structure, culture, and political factors. This exploratory study of Jordanian women suggests that these factors and their subcategories simultaneously help and hinder them. Using Segal’s updated model for women’s participation in the military, we explore how the meaning of Jordanian military women’s experiences compare in a cross-national theoretical framework. We review Segal’s updated model variables and compare it to interview data based on a grounded theory approach. Using semistructured interviews with a nonrandom sample of women who served in the Jordanian military or police, we place their experiences in a cross-national context and provide exploratory qualitative analysis of how these women navigated social and cultural norms. Our results showed that participants perceived their positive experiences and ability to achieve aspirations as enablers to their success, which they considered unlikely in the civilian workforce.

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“…While the nature of war-fighting may itself remain relatively continuous, relying on close-combat infantry in addition to newer technologies (King, 2011), this shift has altered the military-society relationship. Few citizens serve in the armed forces or have direct knowledge of conflict (Haltiner, 2006), and, in this context, an under-examined cultural figure – the ‘troops’ – has become key to the narrative canon of war.…”

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The plural of soldier is not troops: The politics of groups in legitimating militaristic violence

Millar

2019

Security Dialogue

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This article identifies ‘the troops’ as a new, radically under-examined figure in the Western canon of war. Utilising discourse analysis of an original corpus of US ‘support the troops’ material from 2001 to 2010, the article argues that ‘the troops’ cannot be read as a simple aggregation of the figurative soldier or literal military personnel. Instead, ‘groupness of the troops’ shifts the politics of the legitimation of violence – and the possibility of meaningful dissent – in two distinct ways. Firstly, ‘the troops’ are figured, counterintuitively, as passive, dependent and at risk of suffering harm. This enables constructions of militaristic, heroic violence to coexist with empirical experiences of vulnerability without ideological contradiction. Secondly, though many accounts of militarism rely upon citizens’ aspirational identification with the ostensibly-universal soldier, the ‘groupness’ of the troops enables them to incorporate, rather than elide, substantive differences (e.g. race, gender or sexual orientation) through an all-encompassing relationship of ‘support’. Consequently, ‘the troops’ may be a more effective avatar of militarism than ‘the soldier’ – and far more important to the legitimation, depoliticization and even perpetuation of conflict than previously realized. What would the politics of military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq have looked like absent the ‘escape valve’ of the figurative troops?

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The Decline of the European Mass Armies

Cited by 32 publications

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The Stress Levels of Employees in an Organization with Liminal Status: The Case of Gendarmerie in Turkey

The Stress Levels of Employees in an Organization with Liminal Status: The Case of Gendarmerie in Turkey

Women’s Participation in the Jordanian Military and Police: An Exploration of Perceptions and Aspirations

The plural of soldier is not troops: The politics of groups in legitimating militaristic violence

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