Desersi

Dalam istilah militer, desersi adalah pengingkaran tugas atau jabatan tanpa permisi (pergi, bebas atau meninggalkan) dan dilakukan dengan tanpa tujuan kembali. Hal ini berseberangan dengan absensi tak terotoritasi () atau absensi tanpa meninggalkan (, AS AWOL; Persemakmuran: AWL) yang merujuk kepada absensi temporer.

Prancis 
Pada masa Perang Dunia I, sekitar 600 prajurit Prancis dieksekusi atas dakwaan desersi.

Jerman 
Pada Perang Dunia I, hanya 18 orang Jerman yang mendesersi pada Perang Dunia Pertama yang dieksekusi. Pada perang dunia 2, 15,000 orang-orang Jerman yang mendesersi di Wehrmacht dieksekusi.

Referensi

Karya yang dikutip 
 
 Peter S. Bearman; "Desertion as Localism: Army Unit Solidarity and Group Norms in the U.S Civil War", Social Forces, Vol. 70, 1991
 Ella Lonn; Desertion during the Civil War University of Nebraska Press, 1928 (reprinted 1998)
 Aaron W. Marrs; "Desertion and Loyalty in the South Carolina Infantry, 1861–1865", Civil War History, Vol. 50, 2004
 Mark A. Weitz; A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War, University of Nebraska Press, 2000
 Mark A. Weitz; "Preparing for the Prodigal Sons: The Development of the Union Desertion Policy during the Civil War", Civil War History, Vol. 45, 1999

Bacaan tambahan 
 Charles Glass; Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War, Harperpress, 2013.
 Maria Fritsche, Proving One’s Manliness. Masculine Self-perceptions of Austrian Deserters in the Second World War. Gender & History, 24/1 (2012), 35–55.
 Kevin Linch, ‘Desertion from the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars’, Journal of Social History Vol. 49, No. 4 (Summer 2016), pp. 808–828,

Pranala luar 

 Missing movement  from About.com
 Memorial to German World War II deserters in Ulm, Germany at the Sites of Memory webpage
 Memorial to all deserters in Stuttgart, Germany at the Sites of Memory webpage
 AWOL Information 

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