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Author:   Anthony King (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.714kg
ISBN:  

9780198719663

ISBN 10:   0198719663
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   30 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I Concepts 1: Anthony King: On Cohesion 2: Tarak Barkawi: Subaltern Soldiers: Essentialism, Eurocentricism and the Nation-State in the Combat Motivation Debates 3: Rob Johnson: On Killing: historiography and conceptual issues: contexts and concepts from the First World War to the present Part II: Current Debates 4: Eyal Ben Ari: From a Sociology of Units to a Sociology of Combat Formations: Militaries in Urban Combat 5: Anthony King: Discipline and Punish: EncouragingCombat Performance in the Citizen and Professional Army Part III: Historical Experience 6: Antulio Echevarria: Combat and Cohesion in the First World War 7: Jonathan Fennell: Re-evaluating Combat Cohesion: The British Second Army in the North-west Europe Campaign of the Second World War Part IV: Case Studies 8: Garth Pratten: New Model Diggers? Australian Identity, Motivation, and Cohesion in Afghanistan 9: Patrick Bury and Anthony King: A Profession of Love: Cohesion in a British Infantry Platoon in Afghanistan 10: Mikaela Sundberg: Hierarchy, Status, and Combat Motivation in the French Foreign Legion 11: Pascal Vennesson: Cohesion and Misconduct: The French Army and the Mahé Affair 12: Chiara Ruffa: Cohesion, Political Motivation, and Military Performance in the Italian Alpini Part V: The Home Front 13: Leonard Wong and Steven Gerras: Of FOBS and Families 14: Christopher Dandeker and Simon Wessely: Beyond a Battlefield 15: Anthony King: The Future of Cohesion

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Anthony King is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. He has written on sport, social theory, and the armed forces including his most recent books The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces (Cambridge University Press 2011) and The Combat Soldier (Oxford University Press 2013). He is currently working on a book on divisional headquarters. He has acted as a mentor and adviser to the armed forces for a number of years including membership of NATO's ISAF RC (South) Prism Cell in 2009-10 in Kandahar.

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