Armed Forces & Society 

About: Armed Forces & Society is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Civil–military relations & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0095-327X. Over the lifetime, 1677 publications have been published receiving 27302 citations. The journal is also known as: Armed forces & society.

The Military And the Family As Greedy Institutions

Abstract: This paper analyzes military families as the intersection of two societal institutions, both of which make great demands on individuals in terms of commitment, loyalty, time, and energy. It shows t...

From Institution to Occupation Trends in Military Organization

Abstract: Te military can be understood as a social organization which maintains levels of autonomy while refracting broader societal trends. It is from this perspective that we apply a developmental analysis to the emergent structure of the armed forces. Developmental analysis entails historical reconstruction, trend specification, and, most especially, a model of a future state of affairs toward which actual events are heading.I Developmental analysis, that is, emphasizes the &dquo;from here to there&dquo; sequence of present and hypothetical events. Stated in a slightly different way, a developmental construct is a &dquo;pure type&dquo; placed at some future point by which we may ascertain and order the emergent reality of contemporary social phenomena. Models derived from developmental analysis bridge the empirical world of today with the social forms of the future. Put plainly, what is the likely shape of the military in the foreseeable future?

The Civil-Military Problematique: Huntington, Janowitz, and the Question of Civilian Control:

Abstract: The alleged crisis in American civil-military relations has revived a long-standing theoretical debate about the determinants of civilian control. So far, the debate has followed lines of analysis ...

Theories of Democratic Civil-Military Relations:

Abstract: This article reviews civil-military relations theory applied to mature democratic states. It assumes that the important theoretical problem is how to maintain a military that sustains and protects democratic values, showing how the classic and still influential theories of Huntington and Janowitz were rooted, respectively, in liberal and civic republican theories of democracy and, as a result, neither adequately solved this problem. The article then uses current research to pose new questions about the relations between military and political elites, the relations of civilians to the military and the state, and the multinational use of force. Based on the review, it concludes that a new theory of civil-military relations-one that accounts for the circumstances mature democracies presently face and tells how militaries can sustain as they protect democratic values cannot be derived from either liberal or civic republican models of democracy, as Huntington and Janowitz tried to do, but might be derived from...

The Impact of Military Lifestyle Demands on Well-Being, Army, and Family Outcomes:

Abstract: Adopting M. Segal’s framework, we focused on examining four military lifestyle demands—(1) risk of service member injury or death, (2) frequent relocations, (3) periodic separations, and (4) foreig...