The Conscript Army
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A Handbook Of Military Conscription And Composition The World Over
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Author : Rita J. Simon
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-10-16
A Handbook Of Military Conscription And Composition The World Over written by Rita J. Simon and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-16 with History categories.
This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main events that led to the choice of conscription or professional military forces in the countries under study. While we acknowledge that practical and technological developments played major roles in this choice, we also understand that racial and gender relations, social group and political regime dynamics, regional influences, and international forces also affected military composition and relations to the rest of the society. Through this review, we aim at providing an easy-to-access source of knowledge about military mobilization policies and historical developments as well as the main ideas, politics, and events that shaped them. Through this review, we offer a glimpse on developments that influenced societies and political systems and were reflected in their militaries.
Manhood And The Making Of The Military
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Author : Anders Ahlbäck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Manhood And The Making Of The Military written by Anders Ahlbäck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with History categories.
When Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917, the country had not had a military for almost two decades. The ensuing creation of a new national conscript army aroused intense but conflicting emotions among the Finns. This book examines how a modern conscript army, born out of a civil war, had to struggle through social, cultural and political minefields to find popular acceptance. Exploring the ways that images of manhood were used in the controversies, it reveals the conflicts surrounding compulsory military service in a democratic society and the compromises made as the new nation had to develop the will and skill to defend itself. Through the lens of masculinity, another picture of conscription emerges, offering new understandings of why military service was resisted and supported, dreaded and celebrated in Finnish society. Intertwined with the story of the making of the military runs the story of how manhood was made and remade through the idealized images and real-life experiences of conscripted soldiers. Placing interwar Finland within a broad European context, the book traces the origins of competing military traditions and ideological visions of modern male citizenship back to their continental origins. It contributes to the need for studies on the impact of the Great War on masculinities and constructions of gender among military cultures in the peacetime period between the two world wars.
Conscription A World Survey
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Author : Devi Prasad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Conscription A World Survey written by Devi Prasad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Conscript
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Author : Bennett Obi
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-10-10
The Conscript written by Bennett Obi and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Fiction categories.
The Conscript is the story of the Nigerian civil war or (the Nigeria-Biafra war as some people call it) as seen through the eye of a child soldier that was conscripted into the Biafran army. It is by no means an account of the war but purely the way a young conscript saw the war and the impact of the war on his life and the life of his people.
Drafting The Russian Nation
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Author : Joshua A. Sanborn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Drafting The Russian Nation written by Joshua A. Sanborn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Draft categories.
How did Russia develop a modern national identity, and what role did the military play? Sanborn examines tsarist and Soviet armies of the early twentieth century to show how military conscription helped to bind citizens and soldiers into a modern political community. The experience of total war, he shows, provided the means by which this multiethnic and multiclass community was constructed and tested. Drafting the Russian Nation is the first archivally based study of the relationship between military conscription and nation-building in a European country. Stressing the importance of violence to national political consciousness, Sanborn shows how national identity was formed and maintained through the organized practice of violence. The cultural dimensions of the "military body" are explored as well, especially in relation to the nationalization of masculinity. The process of nation-building set in motion by military reformers culminated in World War I, when ethnically diverse conscripts fought together in total war to preserve their national territory. In the ensuing Civil War, the army's effort was directed mainly toward killing the political opposition within the "nation." While these complex conflicts enabled the Bolsheviks to rise to power, the massive violence of war even more fundamentally constituted national political life. Not all minorities were easily assimilated. The attempt to conscript natives of Central Asia for military service in 1916 proved disastrous, for example. Jews, also identified as non-nationals, were conscripted but suffered intense discrimination within the armed forces because they were deemed to be inherently unreliable and potentially disloyal. Drafting the Russian Nation is rich with insights into the relation of war to national life. Students of war and society in the twentieth century will find much of interest in this provocative study.
Soldier And Peasant In Japan
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Author : E. Herbert Norman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Soldier And Peasant In Japan written by E. Herbert Norman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Conscription And Democracy
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Author : George Q. Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-12-30
Conscription And Democracy written by George Q. Flynn and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-30 with History categories.
Finding the manpower to defend democracy has been a recurring problem. Russell Weigley writes: The historic preoccupation of the Army's thought in peacetime has been the manpower question: how, in an unmilitary nation, to muster adequate numbers of capable soldiers quickly should war occur. When the nature of modern warfare made an all-volunteer army inadequate, the major Western democracies confronted the dilemma of involuntary military service in a free society. The core of this manuscript concerns methods by which France, Great Britain, and the United States solved the problem and why some solutions were more lasting and effective than others. Flynn challenges conventional wisdom that suggests that conscription was inefficient and that it promoted inequality of sacrifice. Sharing similar but not identical diplomatic outlooks, the three countries discussed here were allies in world wars and in the Cold War, and they also confronted the problem of using conscripts to defend colonial interests in an age of decolonization. These societies rest upon democratic principles, and operating a draft in a democracy raises several unique problems. A particular tension develops as a result of adopting forced military service in a polity based on concepts of individual rights and freedoms. Despite the protest and inconsistencies, the criticism and waste, Flynn reveals that conscription served the three Western democracies well in an historical context, proving effective in gathering fighting men and allowing a flexibility to cope and change as problems arose.
Conscripts
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Author : Ilana R. Bet-El
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-05-18
Conscripts written by Ilana R. Bet-El and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-18 with Draft categories.
Drawing on diaries, letters and personal accounts from conscripts who served on the Western Front in the latter half of the Great War, this is the first book to explore the contribution they made to the war effort. By the end of the war more than 2.5 million men had been conscripted, but their memory has not lived on; they are the lost legions of the First World War. Here, at last, their story is told: the story of ordinary men, from manual workers to clerks and solicitors, who became soldiers, fought and - for those who survived - went home. In this ground breaking work, Ilana Bet-El explains their absence from the imagery of the war. She reconstructs the daily life of soldiers on the Western Front as we are told, in the conscripts' own words, of the grim reality of dirt and lice and hunger, the mysteries of army pay and military discipline, and the joys of leave and cigarettes. It is a compelling journey back in time, which finally gives them an image, and explains their absence from the public one. It is a discovery of the 'forgotten memory' of Britain's conscript army of the First World War.
Military Conscription
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Author : Simon Duindam
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-17
Military Conscription written by Simon Duindam and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Business & Economics categories.
In this book, entitled "Military Conscription: an economic analysis of the labour component in the armed forces", military conscription is regarded as an eco nomic policy to minimize the cost of labour in the armed forces. The economic cost of conscription becomes clear when we analyse the opportunity costs of conscription. If conscripts were free to choose whether to join the armed forces, many would not under the present day conditions, since for them the costs of conscription far outweighs the benefits. The principle of opportunity costs is always central in the economics of warfare. In this book the analysis begins with an investigation of these oppor tunity costs and then uses the results to analyse the formation of an all-volunteer force, which will in fact be achieved, if everything proceeds according to schedule, by 1998. Chapter one concentrates on the structure of the thesis. One of the cor nerstones is welfare economics. Welfare economics uses a mechanical view of the state. Translated to military conscription this means that the welfare of the conscript is a central point in the analysis of the economic aspects of military conscription. Also important is the fact that the concept of welfare concentrates on scarcity. Due to conscription the aspects of scarcity of labour in the armed forces are very weak, if not absent.
Citizens And Soldiers
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Author : Eliot A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Citizens And Soldiers written by Eliot A. Cohen and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Political Science categories.
Why has the United States, unlike every other 20th-century world power, failed to settle on a durable system of military service? In this lucid book, Eliot Cohen studies the enduring problems of America's methods of raising an army.