Subverting the strategic corporal: the IDF's contemporary heroic imagination. Issue 5 (3rd September 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Subverting the strategic corporal: the IDF's contemporary heroic imagination. Issue 5 (3rd September 2021)
- Main Title:
- Subverting the strategic corporal: the IDF's contemporary heroic imagination
- Authors:
- Stern, Nehemia
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: How does the Israel Defence Forces cultivate the image of a 'hero' within its combat ranks? By analysing a series of online educational videos on combat heritage, this article will demonstrate how the IDF's current heroic imagination is grounded in a subversion of the 'Strategic Corporal' paradigm. Within this paradigm, junior ranking soldiers are seen as increasing the chaos inherent in asymmetrical conflicts. By contrast, this article will argue that a focus on the learned elements of professionalism and training are seen as creating the conditions wherein every man (or woman) can become a 'hero'.
- Is Part Of:
- Israel affairs. Volume 27:Issue 5(2021)
- Journal:
- Israel affairs
- Issue:
- Volume 27:Issue 5(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 27, Issue 5 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0027-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 905
- Page End:
- 920
- Publication Date:
- 2021-09-03
- Subjects:
- Israel -- Israel defence forces -- IDF -- heroism -- strategic corporal -- asymmetrical warfare
Israel -- History -- 1933- -- Periodicals
956.94054 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fisa20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13537121.2021.1968212 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1353-7121
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 4583.598420
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