This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in
the field of military studies. The military is not just like any
organization or profession. It is an organization that is heavily
influenced by politics, which dispatches its personnel to far-flung
places all over the world, sending them into situations where their
lives may be at stake, and is an organization whose operations are
often conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy. Studying the military
is valuable because it uses collective resources such as the tax
payers' money and hires employees that could have earned their
salaries elsewhere in the economy, under less threatening
circumstances. Additionally, the use of violence, the military's
core business, is probably one of the most unpredictable and
impactful forces in social dynamics. For all these reasons, voters
have every right to know what is going on in that organization and
its actions. It is difficult because it is a world of its own, an
island within society-at-large. Getting access to it, particularly
if one is not an regular inhabitant of that island, usually is no
easy game to play.On the other hand, if one is a regular
inhabitant, it may not be easy to do reseach either, because the
organization will not always be interested in seeing the findings
published, or seeing them published only on its own conditions in
terms of timing and presentation. Taken all together, one can
observe a societal and political push to know and an organizational
tendency, however slight, to hide. Given this possible tension, the
methodology of studying the military knows a number of
idiosyncrasies, relating to its difficult accessibility and its
very specific work. Therefore, there is ample reason to devote a
volume to the methodologies of studying the military and, its main
goal, conflict resolution. This handbook will be of much interest
to students of military studies, civil-military relations, military
sociology, political science and research methods in general.
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