The essence of military group cohesion

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 286-295

  Siebold, Guy L ^a,b  

^a US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Military cohesion; Peer bonding; Primary groups; Teamwork; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751439342     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X06294173     Document Type: Article

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12. King, "The Word of Command
13. King, "The Word of Command.", Ibid., 497.
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15. King, "The Word of Command," 509-509.
16. King, "The Word of Command," Ibid., 494.
17. King, "The Word of Command," Ibid., 495.
18. King, "The Word of Command," Ibid., 496.
19. Ibid., 496.
20. See discussion of swift trust in U. Ben-Shalom, Z. Lehrer, and E. Ben-Ari, "Cohesion during Military Operations: A Field Study on Combat Units in the Al-Aqsa Intifada," Armed Forces & Society 32, 1 (October 2005). 63 - 79.
21. King, "The Word of Command," 505-505.
22. King, "The Word of Command," Ibid., 508.
23. Ben-Shalom, Lehrer, and Ben-Ari, "Cohesion during Military Operations
24. King, "The Word of Command," 506-506.
25. For example, see Ben-Shalom, Lehrer, and Ben-Ari, "Cohesion during Military Operations," and L. Wong, "Combat Motivation in Today's Soldiers," Armed Forces & Society 32, 4 (July 2006). 659 - 663.