The new citizen armies
Subtitle: Israel's armed forces in comparative perspective
By: edited by Stuart Cohen.
Contributors: Cohen, Stuart, 1946-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415565462; 9780203861714
Subjects: Israel. -- Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel; Civil-military relations -- Israel; Military art and science -- Cross-cultural studies; Israel -- Armed Forces
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stuart A. Cohen; title: pt. 1. Continuities and their manifestations; title: The enduring citizen-soldier tradition in the United States / Ronald R. Krebs; title: Recruiting the all-volunteer force : continuity and change in the British Army, 1963-2008 / Christopher Dandeker; title: The Royal Netherlands Army, 1814-2008 : the rise and decline of a citizen army? / Jan Hoffenaar; title: Reversing the tide of Jewish history : culture and the creation of Israel's "people's army" / Stuart A. Cohen; title: pt. 2. Change : causes and constraints; title: Operational and technological incentives and disincentives for force transformation / Avi Kober; title: Strategic and political factors preventing the shift from "citizen armies" to professional militaries / Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak; title: Gender issues in the transformation to an all-volunteer force : a transnational perspective / Michelle Sandhoff, Mady Wechsler Segal, David R. Segal; title: Conscription versus recruitment through markets : economic considerations / Yaacov Lifshitz; title: The officer corps in the all-volunteer army : the American experiment continues / Leonard Wong; title: Up from the ashes : the re-professionalization of the Canadian forces after the "Somalia" affair / David J. Bercuson; title: pt. 3. Israeli dilemmas and experiences; title: Where will the women be? : gendered implications of the decline of Israel's citizen army / Orna Sasson-Levy; title: From the "citizen army" to the "market army" : Israel as a case study / Yagil Levy; title: Teaching citizens to be professional soldiers : IDF responses and their implications / Tamir Libel.