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The combat soldier : infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

"The author claims ... the infantry platoon of the mass twentieth century army typically performed poorly and demonstrated low levels of cohesion in combat. With inadequate time and resources to train troops for the industrial battlefield; citizen armies typically relied on appeals to masculinity, nationalism, and ethnicity to unite their troops and to encourage them to fight. By contrast, cohesion among today's professional soldiers is generated and sustained quite differently. While concepts of masculinity and patriotism are not wholly irrelevant, the combat performance of professional soldiers is based primarily on drills ... Consequently, the infantry platoon has become a highly skilled team capable of collective virtuosity in combat. The increasing importance of training, competence, and drills to the professional infantry soldier has not only changed the character of cohesion in the twenty-first century platoon, but it has also allowed for a wider social membership of this group"--P. [4] of Cover.

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  • ""The author claims ... the infantry platoon of the mass twentieth century army typically performed poorly and demonstrated low levels of cohesion in combat. With inadequate time and resources to train troops for the industrial battlefield; citizen armies typically relied on appeals to masculinity, nationalism, and ethnicity to unite their troops and to encourage them to fight. By contrast, cohesion among today's professional soldiers is generated and sustained quite differently. While concepts of masculinity and patriotism are not wholly irrelevant, the combat performance of professional soldiers is based primarily on drills ... Consequently, the infantry platoon has become a highly skilled team capable of collective virtuosity in combat. The increasing importance of training, competence, and drills to the professional infantry soldier has not only changed the character of cohesion in the twenty-first century platoon, but it has also allowed for a wider social membership of this group"--P. [4] of Cover."@en
  • "A work of historical, comparative sociology examining the evolution of infantry tactics in the American, Australian Canadian, British, French, German, and Italian armies from the First World War to the present. It addresses a key question in the social sciences of how social solidarity (cohesion) is generated and sustained."

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  • "The combat soldier : infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"@en
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  • "The combat soldier infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"
  • "The Combat Soldier : Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries"@en
  • "The Combat Soldier : infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"

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