The combat soldier : infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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The combat soldier : infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Oxford University Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-520) and index
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How do small groups of combat soldiers maintain their cohesion under fire? This question has long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to Sangin, the book puts forward a novel and challenging answer to this question. Against the common presumption of the virtues of the citizen soldier, this book claims that, in fact, the infantry platoon
of the mass twentieth century army typically performed poorly and demonstrated low levels of cohesion in combat. With inadequate time and resources to train their troops for the industrial battlefield, citizen armies typically relied on appeals to masculinity, nationalism and ethnicity to unite their
troops and to encourage them to fight. By contrast, cohesion among today's professional soldiers is generated and sustained quite differently. While concepts of masculinity and patriotism are not wholly irrelevant, the combat performance of professional soldiers is based primarily on drills which are inculcated through intense training regimes. Consequently, the infantry platoon has become a highly skilled team capable of collective virtuosity in combat. The increasing importance of training,
competence and drills to the professional infantry soldier has not only changed the character of cohesion in the twenty-first century platoon but it has also allowed for a wider social membership of this group. Soldiers are no longer included or excluded into the platoon on the basis of their skin
colour, ethnicity, social background, sexuality or even sex (women are increasingly being included in the infantry) but their professional competence alone: can they do the job? In this way, the book traces a profound transformation in the western way of warfare to shed light on wider processes of transformation in civilian society.
This book is a project of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War.
目次
- Preface
- 1. The Elementary Forms of the Military Life
- 2. Cohesion
- 3. The Marshall Effect
- 4. Combat Motivation
- 5. Mass Tactics
- 6. Modern Tactics
- 7. The Persistence of Mass
- 8. Battle Drills
- 9. Training
- 10. Professional Solidarity
- 11. The Female Soldier
- 12. The Professional Society
- Bibliography
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