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Elizabeth Kier
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 14
Citations - 895
Elizabeth Kier is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Revolution in Military Affairs & Military doctrine. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 14 publications receiving 858 citations. Previous affiliations of Elizabeth Kier include University of California, Berkeley.
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Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine between the Wars
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines and argue instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines.
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Culture and Military Doctrine: France between the Wars
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the international system is indeterminate of choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines; civilians intervene infrequently in doctrinal develop--al.
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Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat?: An Old Question with an Old Answer
TL;DR: Based on a new Army War College study of unit cohesion in the Iraq War, Wong et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that successful unit performance is determined by social cohesion (the strength of interpersonal bonds amon...
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Homosexuals in the U.S. Military: Open Integration and Combat Effectiveness
TL;DR: In 1992, during the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton pledged to lift the ban on homosexuals in the U.S. armed services, but the original policy proposal was dead by the summer of 1993.
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In war's wake : international conflict and the fate of liberal democracy
Elizabeth Kier,Ronald R. Krebs +1 more
TL;DR: Kier and Krebs as discussed by the authors discuss the effects of war on civil society: cross-national evidence from World War II Rieko Kage, and the tranformation of European democracy.