Combat motivation in today's soldiers: U.S. army war college strategic studies institute

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 659-663

  Wong, Leonard ^a  

^a U S ARMY WAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Combat motivation; Ideology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745034283     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.shk.0000222896.39363.fa     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Leonard Wong, Thomas A. Kolditz, Raymond A. Millen, and Terrence M. Potter, Why They Fight: Combat Motivation in the Iraq War (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, July 2003), 1, http://www. strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=179. Subsequent quotations from soldiers are from this source.
2. S. L. A. Marshall, Men against Fire (New York: William Morrow, 1947).
3. Samuel A. Stouffer, Arthur A. Lumsdaine, Marion Harper Lumsdaine, Robin M. Williams Jr., M. Brewster Smith, Irving L. Janis, Shirley A. Star, and Leonard S. Cottrell Jr., The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, vol. 2 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949);
4. Edward A. Shils and Morris Janowitz, "Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II," Public Opinion Quarterly 12 (Summer 1948): 280-315;
5. Roger W. Little, "Buddy Relations and Combat Performance," in The New Military: Changing Patterns of Organization, ed. Morris Janowitz (New York: Russell Sage, 1964), 195-224;
6. and Charles C. Moskos Jr., The American Enlisted Man: The Rank and File in Today's Military (New York: Russell Sage, 1970).
7. David R. Segal and Joseph H. Lengermann, "Combat Effectiveness," in Combat Effectiveness: Cohesion, Stress, and the Volunteer Army, ed. Sam C. Sarkesian (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1980), 182.
8. Bell Irwin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 1943), 309.
9. Bell Irwin Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 1952), 39-40.
10. Stouffer et al., American Soldier, 111.
11. Ibid., American Soldier, 150.
12. Marshall, Men against Fire, 161.
13. Stouffer et al., American Soldier, 107.
14. Ann Scott Tyson, "Oceans Away, US Troops Crave Approval at Home," The Christian Science Monitor, April 8, 2003, A1.
15. The reasons are derived from James M. McPherson, What They Fought For: 1861-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), 4.
16. See Mark J. Eitelberg, "The All-Volunteer Force after Twenty Years," in Professional on the Front Line: Two Decades of the All-Volunteer Force, ed. J. Eric Fredland, Curtis Gilroy, Roger D. Little, and W. S. Sellman (Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1996), 66-98.