Conflict in the Military World-View: An Ethnography of an Israeli Infantry Battalion.

Abstract

This report analyzed the organization of everyday military knowledge through a focus on the folk models that members of the armed forces have of 'soldiering' and 'commanding.' These models are of great importance because they are basic points of reference for 'what we are' and 'what we are trying to do' through which military reality is constructed. Specifically, this report represents an attempt to explore the main assumptions about, and images of, 'conflict,' the 'use of military force,'or the "enemy" that are held by soldiers and officers. This essay tackles this set of themes by examining a case study; a battalion of elite infantry reserves of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Based on a number of years of participant-observation, the analysis is basically ethnographic in its approach. (AN)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA298509

Entities

People

  • Eyal Ben-ari

Organizations

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anthropology
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Army
  • Case Studies
  • Doctrine
  • Ethnography
  • Military History
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Scientific Theories
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Theoretical Analysis.