02156nam a22002297a 4500 37888 37888 9780367567217 eng- 355.3 MIL- Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars / edited by Thomas Vladimir Brønd, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Eyal Ben-Ari Newyork : ‎ Routledge, 2022 204p. Includes bibliographical references and index. This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre. Despite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day of conventional wars. These tools focus on such classic issues as cohesion and leadership, communication and unit dynamics, or discipline and motivation. While these issues continue to be important, most studies focus on organic units (up to and including brigades). By contrast, this volume suggests the utility of concepts related to mission formations – as opposed to ‘units’ or ‘components’ – to better capture the (ongoing) processual nature of the amalgamations and combinations that military involvement in conflicts necessitates. The study of these formations by the social sciences – sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political science and organization science – requires the introduction of new analytical tools to the study of militaries in theatre. As such, this volume utilizes new approaches to social life, organizational dynamics and to armed violence to understand the place of the armed forces in contemporary conflicts and the new tasks they are assigned. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, security studies and International Relations in general. English. Sociology, Military. Hybrid warfare. Integrated operations (Military science) Brønd, Thomas Vladimir editor. Ben-Shalom, Uzi editor. Ben-Ari , Eyal editor. ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2023-03-16 Overseas 0.00 0 355.3 MIL- 53516 2023-05-26 00:00:00 0.00 2023-05-26 BK