The New Citizen Armies: IsraelÆs Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective

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ISBN: 9780415565462 | 0415565464
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/23/2010

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This volume is a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

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Notes on contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Continuities and their manifestations	p. 5
The enduring citizen-soldier tradition in the United States	p. 7
Recruiting the all-volunteer force: continuity and change in the British Army, 1963-2008	p. 32
The Royal Netherlands Army, 1814-2008: the rise and decline of a citizen army?	p. 48
Reversing the tide of Jewish history: culture and the creation of Israel's ôpeople's armyö	p. 56
Change: causes and constraints	p. 75
Operational and technological incentives and disincentives for force transformation	p. 77
Strategic and political factors preventing the shift from ôcitizen armiesö to professional militaries	p. 92
Gender issues in the transformation to an all-volunteer force: a transnational perspective	p. 111
Conscription versus recruitment through markets: economic considerations	p. 132
The officer corps in the all-volunteer army: the American experiment continues	p. 144
Up from the ashes: the re-professionalization of the Canadian forces after the ôSomalia Affairö	p. 159
Israeli dilemmas and experiences	p. 171
Where will the women be? Gendered implications of the decline of Israel's citizen army	p. 173
From the ôcitizen armyö to the ômarket armyö: Israel as a case study	p. 196
Teaching citizens to be professional soldiers: IDF responses and their implications	p. 215
Index	p. 234
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The New Citizen Armies: IsraelÆs Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective

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