{"product_id":"military-mission-formations-and-hybrid-wars-new-sociological-perspectives-cass-military-studies-9780367427153","title":"Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day of conventional wars. These tools focus on such classic issues as cohesion and leadership, communication and unit dynamics, or discipline and motivation. While these issues continue to be important, most studies focus on organic units (up to and including brigades). By contrast, this volume suggests the utility of concepts related to mission formations  as opposed to units' or components'  to better capture the (ongoing) processual nature of the amalgamations and combinations that military involvement in conflicts necessitates. The study of these formations by the social sciences  sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political science and organization science  requires the int\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Introduction and Reflections on the Field \u003c\/strong\u003e1. Mission Formations and a New Agenda for the Study of Military Units in Action \u003cem\u003eEyal Ben-Ari, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Thomas Brønd and Carmit Padan \u003c\/em\u003e2. New Directions in Military Sociology: Reflections on a Book Project Fifteen Years Later \u003ci\u003eEric Ouellet \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: New Organizational Forms and Processes \u003c\/b\u003e3. Organizational Adaptations in the Hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A Review of Concepts for Analyzing Their Usefulness\u003ci\u003e Wilbur Scott\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Bureaucracies, Networks and Warfare in a Fluid Operating Environment \u003ci\u003eJessica Glicken Turnley \u003c\/i\u003e5. From Leading Combat Units to Leading Combat Formations: Modularity, Loose Systems, and Temporariness \u003ci\u003eEyal Ben-Ari \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Methodologies for the Study of Military Formations \u003c\/b\u003e6. Research Approaches for the Study of Combat Formations – A Personal Note \u003ci\u003eUzi Ben-Shalom \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Glocalized Mission Formations \u003c\/b\u003e7. Institutional Isomorphic Change in South Korea’s UNPKO Mission Formation \u003ci\u003eInsoo Kim and Young-Il Choi \u003c\/i\u003e8. ‘Democracy… 120 mm at a Time’: Mission Formations and Operational Entrapments in Post-9\/11 Afghanistan \u003ci\u003eThomas Randrup Pedersen \u003c\/i\u003e9. Logics battlefield: IT Contracting and Military Reserves in the Dutch Army \u003ci\u003eJoseph Soeters, Gerold de Gooijer, Paul C. van Fenema and Nuno Oliveira \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Bringing it all Together \u003c\/b\u003e10. Integrative Epilogue: What’s New About the Mission Formations Approach? Thinking Through the Military-Academic Juncture \u003ci\u003eThomas Crosbie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017900360023,"sku":"9780367427153","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367427153.jpg?v=1750775023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/military-mission-formations-and-hybrid-wars-new-sociological-perspectives-cass-military-studies-9780367427153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}