Epilogue: A "good" military death

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 651-664

  Ben Ari, Eyal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 25644438420     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X0503100410     Document Type: Article

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19. Ibid., 52.
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21. Vinitzky-Seroussi and Ben-Ari, "A Knock."
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29. Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor,
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38. Tyler and Gifford, "Fatal Training," 243-244.
39. Bartone and Ender, "Organizational Response," 33-34.
40. This section is based on Vinitzky-Seroussi and Ben-Ari, "A Knock."
41. Jonathan Parry, "Sacrificial Death and Necrophagous Ascetic," in Death and the Regeneration of Life (see note 9), 74-110;
42. Snodgrass, "Beware."
43. Bartone and Ender, "Organizational Response."
44. Ibid., 32.
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47. Vinitzky-Seroussi and Ben-Ari, "A Knock."
48. Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization (London: Sage, 1986), 82.
49. Ibid., 82.