To understand wars and armed conflicts, we need to understand the inner logic of military institutions and warrior culture. Making Warriors in a Global Era provides ethnography, analyses, and discussions to infuse new debates among both military personnel and academics about the rise of special operations forces (SOF) and the ways they impact how armed conflicts are dealt with and how wars are fought. Based on a decade of research and her unprecedented access inside a Norwegian Naval Special Operations Commando, Tone Danielsen describes the culture, experiences, and skill sets, of small state special operations unit as well as exploring the historical and political implications these types of units have, not just on modern warfare but on society as a whole.
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Making Warriors in a Global Era provides ethnographic data, analyses, and discussions to infuse new debates among both military personnel and academics about the rise of special operations forces (SOF) and the ways they impact how armed conflicts are dealt with and how wars are fought.
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Chapter 1: Bringing Anthropology Home
Chapter 2: The Stories Told, and What They Tell
Chapter 3: Institutional Apprenticeship: Selection and Basic Training
Chapter 4: Skillset and Discipline
Chapter 5: SOFish Mindset: Creativity, Initiative, and Innovation
Chapter 6: Change of Pace: Switching On and Off
Chapter 7: Special Forces, Special Organization, Special Practices
Chapter 8: Wars and Warriors in the Global Era
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In an excellent in-depth ethnography Tone Danielsen describes and analyzes a unit of the Norwegian Special Forces. Combining keen anthropological insights and sensitive interpretation of empirical examples, she offers a model analysis of the kind of unit that is increasingly taking center stage today's globalized conflicts.
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ISBN
9781498561815
Publisert
2018-08-15
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Lexington Books
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576 gr
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228 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
242
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