Military Psychology in Switzerland

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert Annen ◽  
Stefan Seiler ◽  
Klaus Jonas
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Military Psychology ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Application Fields ◽  
Counseling And Guidance

Selection, assessment, motivation, stress, and leadership are the central research and application fields of military psychology. The Swiss Armed Forces have worked in these fields since the 1920s. However, military psychology has only been instituted in Switzerland officially since the mid-1990s. Psychologists and educators in the Psychological-Pedagogical Service of the Armed Forces give counseling and guidance to soldiers and cadre alike, while in the recruitment centers psychologically trained personnel maintain a high quality in psychological testing. Military psychological research is conducted mainly at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich (MILAK/ETHZ). The articles in this Special Issue are connected directly to the pertinent research in the fields of selection, training, and education of cadre in the Swiss Armed Forces.

scholarly journals Comparative characteristics of power capabilities of cadets of various sports sections (armsport, crossfit, kettlebell lifting, powerlifting)

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
V. P. Yahodzinskyi ◽  
O. M. Kisilyuk ◽  
D. P. Polozenko ◽  
O. A. Desyatka ◽  
V. O. Novytskyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Military Intelligence ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Military ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Push Up

Power sports have always been very popular among servicemen. This is especially evident in recent times, when such power sports, as armsport, crossfit, kettlebell lifting, powerlifting have received some development. The article presents a comparative analysis of the power capabilities of cadets who specialize in various power sports. The study involved male cadets of the 4th year of various faculties (n=53) of the Military Academy (Odessa), who in the process of training were engaged in power sports: armsport (n=12), crossfit (n=16), kettlebell lifting (n=15), powerlifting (n = 10). In addition, the results of cadets-athletes were compared with the results of cadets of the faculty of training specialists of airborne assault troops and military intelligence and special purpose, who did not attend sports sections of the academy (n=60). Analysis of the power of the cadets was carried out on the following exercises: pull-up, lifting by coup, lifting by strength on the crossbar, 24 kg kettlebell snatch, push-up on the parallel bars, push-up. The conducted researches testified to the high level of development of power qualities of cadets of all sections of academy in power sports. There was no significant difference between the results of cadets of different power sports in most exercises. It is established that the power capabilities of cadets who are engaged in various power sports are significantly better than those of cadets who are not engaged in sports. This suggests that any of the studied power sports can be an effective means of developing and improving the power opportunities of future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Power of Experience? Innovative and Authoritative Leadership Values Among Danish Army Cadets

2020 ◽  
pp. 0095327X2095143
Author(s):  
Morten Brænder ◽  
Vilhelm Stefan Holsting
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Leadership Values ◽  
The Military ◽  
Noncommissioned Officer

Traditionally, the military is seen as an unequivocally authoritarian organization. With survey data collected at the Royal Danish Military Academy, this study shows that that is a qualified truth. Thus, cadets enrolled directly from the noncommissioned officer corps—those most acquainted with the norms of the armed forces—do not weigh authoritarian leadership values over nonauthoritarian ones. Instead, their view reflects that for the experienced leader, the context, and not overt ideals, enables them to choose the leadership tools they expect will prove most effective. On the contrary, cadets enrolled based on their civilian merits clearly prioritize authoritarian values. This is particularly true among cadets returning to the military after a break, former professionals, and former draftees alike. Their view also reflects experience, but a different kind of experience, as they have primarily encountered the military hierarchy from the receiving end.

Toward Strategic Cohesion: A Reply to King’s Criticism of the Call for a Broader View of Cohesion

2020 ◽  
pp. 0095327X2097476
Author(s):  
Ilmari Käihkö
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Combat Soldier

In October 2018, Armed Forces & Society published a special issue that called for a theoretical and methodological broadening of the study of cohesion. In a response, King accuses me of ignoring his 2013 book The Combat Soldier, which he feels had already made this call redundant. This answer explains why this is not the case. The Combat Soldier ticks the three boxes of modern, Western, and state military that have dominated the study of cohesion. The resulting narrow vantage point affirms problematic assumptions of Western concepts as absolutes with universal validity with little room for other models of sociopolitical interaction. This becomes especially problematic when King defines cohesion as tactical-level combat performance, the be-all and end-all of what makes, and decides, war. The answer concludes with an appeal for truly interdisciplinary future studies of war that a broader understanding of cohesion, among other things, depends on.

Military Psychology Special Issue on Building Adaptive Capacity Within Multicultural Teams

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-368
Author(s):  
C. Shawn Burke ◽  
Maritza Salazar ◽  
Eduardo Salas
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Military Psychology

National implementation of international humanitarian law. Biannual update on national legislation and case law July–December 2005

2006 ◽  
Vol 88 (861) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Case Law ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
National Implementation ◽  
Law Of Armed Conflict ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
And Training

A. LegislationAfghanistanA. Legislation. Afghanistan. The Order of the Minister of National Defence on the Establishment of a Board of Curriculum on [the integration of] the International Law of Armed Conflict into the Educational and Training Institutions of the National Armed Forces, as well as National Army Units was adopted in July 2005. The Order nominates the members of the Board and defines a number of duties and actions to be undertaken for the training and education of national armed forces in the law of armed conflict. These activities include in particular the preparation of teaching materials, the appointment of instructors, and the proposed establishment of a legal department within the education and training institutions of the Ministry of Defence.

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