Introduction to the Armed Forces & Society Forum on Military Reserves in the "New Wars". Issue 4 (October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Catignani, Sergio; Gazit, Nir; Ben-Ari, Eyal
• Is Part Of: Armed forces and society. Volume 47:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: 607
• Page End: 615
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Subjects: military reserves -- reservists -- military compacts -- military sociology -- transmigrants -- civil–military relations; Sociology, Military -- Periodicals; Sociology, Military -- United States -- Periodicals; Armed Forces -- Periodicals; United States -- Armed Forces -- Periodicals; 306.27
• DOI: 10.1177/0095327X21996220
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0095-327X

Abstract

This Armed Forces & Society forum is dedicated to exploring recent trends in the characteristics of military reserves and of the changing character of reserve forces within the armed forces within the military, the civilian sphere, and in between them. To bring new and critical perspectives to the study of reserve forces and civil–military relations, this introduction and the five articles that follow draw on two organizing conceptual models: The first portrays reservists as transmigrants and focuses on the plural membership of reservists in the military and in civilian society and the "travel" between them. The second model focuses on the multiple formal and informal compacts (contracts, agreements, or pacts) between reservists and the military.