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Broadening the Perspective on Military Cohesion
Swedish Defence University, Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership (ISSL), Division of Strategy. Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
2018 (English)In: Armed forces and society, ISSN 0095-327X, E-ISSN 1556-0848, Vol. 44, no 4, p. 571-586Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

It is difficult to underestimate the importance of cohesion for armed groups or organizations specialized and engaged in organized violence. This article argues that the recent debate on military cohesion has been far too narrow as it focused on Western state militaries during the 20th and 21st centuries, and even then only on the microlevel. It is necessary to broaden the perspective in order to construct theories that encompass even the vast majority of armed groups—the non-Western, nonstate, and nonmodern. This article advocates two ways of doing so: the investigation of cases that belong to these three types and broadening analysis to two new levels of analysis—the meso-level of armed groups and the macro-level, which contains state and society. Cohesion is established through harmonizing these three levels, which necessitates including them in the analysis in the first place.

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Sage Publications, 2018. Vol. 44, no 4, p. 571-586
Keywords [en]
armed groups, Eurocentrism, military cohesion, military sociology, militias, primary groups, rebel groups
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Krigsvetenskap
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9124DOI: 10.1177/0095327X18759541Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85052650136OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-9124DiVA, id: diva2:1424286
Available from: 2020-04-16 Created: 2020-04-16 Last updated: 2020-04-16Bibliographically approved

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