Empire and Military Organization

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-178
Author(s):  
Ian Morris
Keyword(s):  
Military Organization ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Empire

The history of empire is the history of organized violence. The ability to impose and manage violence is the most basic demand and highest priority for the survival of any empire. This chapter outlines the various forms of military organizations different empires have employed throughout history. It describes the internal and external functions of these military organizations in protecting and expanding the empire, as well as the problems faced by imperial regimes of financing and controlling military organizations that might otherwise turn against the very same regimes they were created to protect. Lastly, the chapter gives a historical walk-through of the “Revolutions in Military Affairs” (RMAs) that have propelled the advancement in military affairs through history, which has allowed empires to grow in scale and size.

The Oxford World History of Empire

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
World History ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Energy Transfers ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Empire ◽  
Elite Formation

The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol.1: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and world-historical synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through five millennia. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, monumental display, law, mapping and registering, religion, literature, the politics of difference, resistance, energy transfers, ecology, memories, and the decline of empires. This broad set of topics is united by the central theme of power, examined under four headings: systems of power, cultures of power, disparities of power, and memory and decline. Taken together, these chapters offer a comprehensive view of the imperial experience in world history

scholarly journals THE RELEVANCE OF MILITARY FAMILIES FOR MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS AND MILITARY SOCIOLOGY

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
LJUBICA JELUŠIČ ◽  
JULIJA JELUŠIČ JUŽNIČ ◽  
JELENA JUVAN
Keyword(s):  
Military Families ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Military Sociology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Volunteer Force ◽  
The Military

Povzetek Prispevek predstavlja zgodovinski pregled odnosa med vojaško družino in vojaško organizacijo, od prepovedi, zanikanja in nadzora do vključitve v vojaško skupnost. Prelomnica v obravnavanju družine je prehod na poklicno popolnjevanje, ko postane lojalnost družine do vojske bistvena za pridobivanje in zadrževanje vojaškega osebja. Hkrati je vojaška družina postala zanimiva vojaškosociološka tematika raziskovanja, tako v kontekstu sociološkega koncepta požrešnih institucij kot v dihotomiji ravnotežja med delom in življenjem. Vojske, ki so nastajale na slovenskih tleh skozi zgodovino, so sledile svetovnim trendom glede obravnave družin, slovenski vojaški sociologi pa so prispevali pomemben delež spoznanj o slovenskih vojaških družinah h globalnim vojaškosociološkim dosežkom. Ključne besede Vojaška družina, zgodovina odnosa med družino in vojsko, celostna skrb za pripadnike SV, raziskovanje vojaških družin v vojaški sociologiji. Abstract This article presents the history of relations between the military family and the military organization, which have varied from forbiddance, to ignorance, regulation, and finally to inclusion in the military community. The turning point appeared at a time of introducing all volunteer force when the loyalty of families towards the military became important for recruitment and retention of service members. This was also the moment for military sociology to discover the military families as interesting to deploy the general sociological concepts of greedy institutions, work-life balance, negotiation between military and family, etc. The militaries in Slovenian territory followed these trends. Slovenian military sociologists contributed an important part of the knowledge of Slovenian military families to global social science achievements. Key words Military family, history of relations between military and family, comprehensive care for service members of the SAF, the research of military families in military sociology.

scholarly journals The Corporate War Dead: New Perspectives on the Demographics of American and British Contractors

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ori Swed ◽  
Jae Kwon ◽  
Bryan Feldscher ◽  
Thomas Crosbie
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Military Activity

From an obscure sector synonymous with mercenaryism, the private military and security industry has grown to become a significant complementing instrument in military operations. This rise has brought with it a considerable attention. Researchers have examined the role of private military and security companies in international relations as well as the history of these companies, and, above all, the legal implications of their use in the place of military organizations. As research progresses, a significant gap has become clear. Only a handful of studies have addressed the complex of issues associated with contractors’ demographics and lived experience. This article sheds some light over this lacuna, examining contractors’ demographics using descriptive statistics from an original data set of American and British contractors who died in Iraq between the years 2003 and 2016. The article augments our understanding of an important population of post-Fordist-contracted workforce, those peripheral workers supplementing military activity in high-risk occupations with uncertain long-term outcomes.

scholarly journals No More Uncertain: The Future of the Gurkhas in the British Army

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Paulina Stanik
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
British Army ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Nepalese soldiers, known as the Gurkhas, have been serving in the British Army for over 200 years and have become to be considered an integral part of this military organization. Their long history of service includes participation in the two world wars, as well as the more recent combat missions in the Middle East. However, some call the existence of their military participation a colonial legacy of British imperialism. The aim of this paper is to answer the question on the future of the Nepalese soldiers in the United Kingdom. The study is primarily based on the findings of the 1989 Defence Committee Report regarding the situation and prospects of the Brigade of the Gurkhas, which is juxtaposed with the most recent dispatches and research dealing with the British Army in general and with the Gurkhas themselves.

Political Settlements and the Reconfiguration of Civic and Political Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-93
Author(s):  
Manal A. Jamal
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Women's Organizing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rich History

A rich history of civic organizing in El Salvador and the Palestinian territories undergirded the mass mobilization of the 1970s and 1980s. These mobilization efforts and much of the associational life that grew out of them were responses to conflicts with long historical roots. This chapter explains the historical roles of the political-military organizations of the FLMN and PLO in mass mobilization in the two cases. It then traces the evolution of mass mobilization and associational life leading to the beginning of the conflicttopeace transition in each case, including the development of mass based women’s organizing in both cases.

The Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-110
Author(s):  
Gojko Barjamovic
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Third Millennium Bce ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Empire

The history of empire begins in Western Asia. This chapter tracks developments in the second and first millennia BCE as imperial control in the region became increasingly common and progressively more pervasive. Oscillations between political fragmentation and imperial unification swung gradually toward the latter, from just a few documented examples in the third millennium BCE to the more-or-less permanent partition of Western Asia into successive imperial states from the seventh century BCE until the end of World War I. The chapter covers about a dozen empires and empire-like states, tracing developments of territoriality and notions of imperial universality using Assyria ca. 2004–605 BCE as a case study for how large and loose hegemonies became the normative political formation in the region.

Educating

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-159
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Rotter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Sensory History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
History Of Empire

The chapter provides a sensory history of empire in the two countries, India and the Philippines, at the turn of the twentieth century. By that point, the process of visualizing Indian and Filipino subjects was well underway by their colonizers. The chapter looks at sight and sound and how they can be used to narrate the story at this point. The dynamics of Anglo-American soundscapes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transferred readily and deliberately to sites of empire, to India and the Philippines. In particular, it looks at the music in the two empires at this time.

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