Squaddies Portrait of a Subculture

This remarkable book is the first ever sociological study of an operational army unit. The author, himself a former regular soldier, observed a group of raw recruits to the British Army during their basic training, accompanied a unit on an exercise in Canda and also went with it to the dangerous 'bandit country' of South Armagh.John Hockey paints a memorable picture of the subsculture of private soldiers in today's regular infantry, and he shows vividly how this conforms and conflicts with the formal demands of the military organisation.Anyone who wants to know more about the working of the army at grass-roots level will find this book essential reading.

Acknowledgements	p. viii
The Army and the Private Soldier	p. 1
Military Law-Interpretation and Application	p. 12
Basic Training-Organisational Socialisation	p. 21
Basic Training: Its Unofficial Face	p. 44
'Real Soldiering' in the Battalion	p. 63
The Battalion: 'Us' and 'Them' Revisited	p. 81
The Operational Environment and Combat	p. 97
A Licentious Soldiery? (Off-Duty Time)	p. 112
Occupational Values and Beliefs	p. 123
Some Conclusions: Conflicts, Tensions and Paradoxes	p. 141
Glossary	p. 162
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 183
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