The Routledge Handbook of War and Society

<p>This new handbook provides an introduction to current sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p><p>The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent two of the most interesting and potentially troubling events of recent decades. These two wars-so similar in their beginnings-generated different responses from various publics and the mass media; they have had profound effects on the members of the armed services, on their families and relatives, and on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. </p><p>Analyzing the effect of the two wars on military personnel and civilians, this volume is divided into four main parts:</p><p><strong>Part I: War on the Ground: Combat and Its Aftermath</strong></p><p><strong>Part II: War on the Ground: Non-Combat Operations, Noncombatants, and Operators </strong></p><p><strong>Part III: The War Back Home: The Social Construction of War, Its Heroes, And Its Enemies </strong></p><p><strong>Part IV: The War Back Home: Families and Youth on the Home Front</strong></p><p>With contributions from leading academic sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, military researchers, and researchers affiliated with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), this Handbook will be of interest to students of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, military sociology and psychology, war studies, anthropology, US politics, and of youth.</p><p><strong>Steven Carlton-Ford</strong> is associate professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. He recently served for five years as the editor of Sociological Focus.</p><p><strong>Morten G. Ender</strong> is professor of sociology and Sociology Program Director at West Point, the United States Military Academy. He is the author of <em>American Soldiers in Iraq</em> (Routledge 2009).</p> <p>Foreword <em>Christopher Dandeker. </em>Introduction <em>Steven Carlton-Ford and Morton G. Ender </em><strong>Part 1: War on the Ground: Combat and its Aftermath </strong>1. Fighting Two Protracted Wars: Recruiting and Retention with an All-Volunteer Force <em>Susan M. Ross</em> 2. Fighting the Irregular War in Afghanistan: Success in Combat - Struggles in Stabilization <em>Brigid Myers Pavilonis </em>3. Learning the Lessons of Counterinsurgency <em>Ian Roxborough </em>4. Twenty-First Century Narratives from Afghanistan: Storytelling, Morality, and War <em>Ryan D. Pengelly and</em> <em>Anne Irwin </em>5. Two US Combat Units in Iraq: Psychological Contracts When Expectations and Realities Diverge <em>Wilbur Scott, David McCone, and</em> <em>George R. Mastroianni </em>6. Capturing Saddam Hussein: Social Network Analysis and Counterinsurgency Operations <em>Brian J. Reed and David R. Segal </em>7. Apples, Barrels and Abu Ghraib <em>George R. Mastroianni and</em> <em>George Reed </em>8. The War on Terror in the Early 21 Century: Applying Lessons from Sociological Classics and Sites of Abuse <em>Ryan Ashley Caldwell and</em> <em>Stjepan G. Mestrovic </em><strong>Part 2: War on the Ground: Non-Combat Operations, Noncombatants, and Operators </strong>9. Policing Post-War Iraq: Insurgency, Civilian Police, and the Reconstruction of Society <em>Mathieu Deflem and</em> <em>Suzanne Sutphin </em>10. Policing Afghanistan: Civilian Police Reform and the Resurgence of the Taliban <em>Mathieu Deflem </em>11. Managing Humanitarian Information in Iraq <em>Aldo Benini, Charles Conley, Joseph Donahue, and Shawn Messick </em>12. Role of Contractors and Other Non-Military Personnel in Today's Wars <em>O. Shawn Cupp and</em> <em>William C. Latham, Jr. </em>13. Evaluating Psychological Operations in Operation Enduring Freedom <em>James E. Griffith </em>14. Armed Conflict and Health: Cholera in Iraq <em>Daniel Poole </em>15. Iraqi Adolescents: Self-Regard, Self-Derogation, and Perceived Threat in War <em>Steve Carlton-Ford, Morten G. Ender, and Ahoo Tabatabai </em><strong>Part 3: The War Back Home: The Social Construction of War, its Heroes, and its Enemies </strong>16. Globalization and the Invasion of Iraq: State Power and the Enforcement of Neo-liberalism <em>Daniel Egan </em>17. The Pakistan and Afghan Crisis <em>Riaz Ahmed Shaikh </em>18. Mass Media as Risk-Management in the 'War on Terror' <em>Christopher M. Pieper </em>19. Talking War: How Elite Newspaper Editorials and Opinion Pieces Debated the Attack on Iraq <em>Alexander G. Nikolaev and</em> <em>Douglas V. Porpora </em>20. Debating Antiwar Protests: The Microlevel Discourse of Social Movement Framing on a University LISTSERV <em>Mark Hedley and</em> <em>Sara A. Clark </em>21. Making Heroes: An Attributional Perspective <em>Gregory C. Gibson, Richard Hogan, John Stahura, and Eugene Jackson </em>22. Making the Muslim Enemy: The Social Construction of the Enemy in the War on Terror <em>Erin Steuter and</em> <em>Deborah Wills </em><strong>Part 4: The War Back Home: Families and Youth on the Home Front </strong>23. Greedy Media: Army Families, Embedded Reporting, and War in Iraq <em>Morten G. Ender, Kathleen M. Campbell, Toya J. Davis, and Patrick R. Michaelis </em>24. Military Child Well-being in the Face of Mulitple Deployments <em>Rachel Lipari, Anna Winters, Kenneth Matos, Jason Smith, and</em> <em>Lindsay Rock </em>25. American Undergraduate Attiutdes Toward the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Trends and Variations <em>Morten G. Ender, David E. Rohall, and</em> <em>Michael D. Matthews</em></p>