Solidarity of Conscripts: Informal Cohesive Ties

This book is about the informally working cohesive forces connecting the drafted man-power in the Turkish Armed Forces. (Service is compulsary for a specified term for all healthy male citizens). Esprit de corps which is essential for high morale can be achieved and sustained in a better and more effective manner through traditional in-gdoup ties rather than officially imposed norms or legitimate but coercive written codes. The spontaneous formation of the we-feeling thus created provides the best psychological support ever possible for the plain soldier under harsh training conditions as well as real battle circumstances.