Based on more than one hundred interviews and group discussions
with low-ranking soldiers, conscripts, and volunteers, this volume
provides a unique perspective on the history, and analyzes the
current status, of soldier unions and resistance movements in more
than twenty countries. Beginning with the isolated, spontaneous
incidents that characterized military protest in the mid-1960s, the
study traces the changing profile of resistance movements in the
conscript armies of Europe; the volunteer forces of the United
States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia; and the armed forces
of Portugal, Chile, Iran, and the Phillipines. From the information
and data collected, David Cortright and Max Watts hypothesize that
resistance among low-ranking soldiers occurs only in countries with
a high degree of capital accumulation, a new concept they refer to
as the Threshold Theory of Military Resistance. Support for the
Threshold Theory is based on data extracted from in-depth
descriptions of the origins and organization of military unions and
protest movements in Holland, West Germany, Scandinavia, France,
Italy, Spain, East Germany, and the Soviet Union, as well as in
countries below the threshold. A detailed examination of the United
States army's resistance activities after the Vietnam conflict, its
attempted unionization, and its continuing struggle with lack of
discipline and low morale completes the global scope of this work.
It will offer military sociologists, scholars, social scientists,
soldiers, and veterans a singular survey of the dynamics of protest
within the military around the world.
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