Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations : : Afghanistan and Lebanon / / Chiara Ruffa.
As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also...
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Ruffa, Chiara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations : Afghanistan and Lebanon / Chiara Ruffa. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (204 p.) : 5 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Force Employment, Unit Peace Operation Effectiveness, and Military Cultures -- 2. French and Italian Military Cultures -- 3. French and Italian Units in Lebanon -- 4. French and Italian Units in Afghanistan -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also have a concomitant influence on their goals and impact. Yet we know surprisingly little about the factors that prompt soldiers' behavior. Despite being deployed on the same mission under similar conditions, various national contingents display significant, systematic differences in their actions on the ground.In Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, Chiara Ruffa challenges the widely held assumption that military contingents, regardless of their origins, implement mandates in a similar manner. She argues instead that military culture—the set of attitudes, values, and beliefs instilled into an army and transmitted across generations of those in uniform —influences how soldiers behave at the tactical level. When soldiers are abroad, they are usually deployed as units, and when a military unit deploys, its military culture goes with it. By investigating where military culture comes from, Ruffa demonstrates why military units conduct themselves the way they do.Between 2007 and 2014, Ruffa was embedded in French and Italian units deployed under comparable circumstances in two different kinds of peace and stability operations: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Based on hundreds of interviews, she finds that while French units prioritized patrolling and the display of high levels of protection and force—such as body armor and weaponry—Italian units placed greater emphasis on delivering humanitarian aid. She concludes that civil-military relations and societal beliefs about the use of force in the units' home country have an impact on the military culture overseas, soldiers' perceptions and behavior, and, ultimately, consequences for their ability to keep the peace. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Peacekeeping forces, French Afghanistan Psychology. Peacekeeping forces, French Lebanon Psychology. Peacekeeping forces, Italian Afghanistan Psychology. Peacekeeping forces, Italian Lebanon Psychology. Strategic culture. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International). bisacsh Military Science. Political Science. Public Policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics and Social Sciences 2018 English 9783110604016 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2018 9783110603231 ZDB-23-DSW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295047 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295047 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812295047.jpg |
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