Argues that the reform of military recruitment in Brazil had a profound impact, second only to the abolition of slavery, on institutions of social discipline and the lives of the poor.
The primary objective of the authors of this publication is to understand the efficacy of terrorists use of the Internet and the scope of this activity, and to analyze the content, graphics and source code. Topics covered include the use of the Internet for psychological warfare…
Informational theory of rebel recruitment -- Changes in rebel organizations -- Recruitment -- Desertion -- State's counterinsurgency strategy -- Rebel decline
"State armies around the world commemorate their fallen soldiers through ceremonies of remembrance and ritual memory-making. But these "spectacles of mourning" are careful manipulations of affect, gendered and structured by the military to both acknowledge lives lost and reinfor…
Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
"The make-up of South Asian armies has always been determined by class and culture as well as by the different aims of the communities who served in them. Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 30…
"In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standards. Most of his countrymen had not been on active service outside the realm for twenty years and more, if at all, yet over the cours…
