Research Catalog

Title

The future of the Army profession / Don M. Snider, project director ; Lloyd J. Matthews, editor ; with forewords by Jim Marshall, Frederick M. Franks.

Publication

Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Franks, Fred
• Snider, Don M., 1940-
• Matthews, Lloyd J.
• Marshall, Jim, 1948-

Description

xxiv, 762 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

I. The study of military professionals -- II. Officership and the Army profession -- III. The expert knowledge of the Army profession -- IV. The Army's military technical expertise -- V. The Army profession and the Army ethos -- VI. The premier expertise : human / leader development -- VII. The Army profession and its political-cultural expertise.

Subject

• United States. Army > Vocational guidance
• United States. Army > Officers
• Leadership
• Military ethics > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I. The Study of Military Professions : -- 1. The U.S. Army as profession / Don M. Snider -- 2. Expertise, jurisdiction, and legitimacy of the military profession / James Burk -- 3. Anti-intellectualism and the army profession / Lloyd J. Matthews -- 4. Serving the American people : a historical view of the army profession / Leonard Wong and Douglas V. Johnson II -- Part II. Officership and the Army Profession : -- 5. In their own words : army officers discuss their profession / Gayle L. Watkins and Randi C. Cohen -- 6. The multiple identities of the professional army officer / Don M. Snider, John Nagl and Paul Yingling, Tony Pfaff, Suzanne Nielsen -- 7. Army officership for the joint expeditionary mindset / Richard Swain -- 8. Professional identity development for 21st century army officers / George B. Forsythe, Scott Snook, Philip Lewis, and Paul T. Bartone -- Part III. The Expert Knowledge of the Army Profession : --^
• 9. Mapping army professional expertise and clarifying jurisdictions of practice / Richard Lacquement -- 10. Opportunity for the army : defense transformation and a new joint military profession / Don M. Snider and Jeffrey Peterson -- 11. A return to the army's roots : governance, stabilization, and reconstruction / Nadia Schadlow, Charles Barry, and Richard Lacquement -- 12. Losing control of the profession through outsourcing? / Deborah Avant -- Part IV. The Army's Military-Technical Expertise : -- 13. The digital battlefield : transformation efforts and the army's future professional jurisdictions / Elizabeth A. Stanley and G.F. Deimel -- 14. Professionalism and army doctrine : a losing battle? / James A. Blackwell -- 15. New requirments for army expert knowledge : Afghanistan and Iraq / Michael J. Meese and Sean M. Morgan -- 16. Transforming the army's way of battle : revising our abstract knowledge / Antulio J. Echevarria II -- Part V. The Army Profession and the Army Ethos : --^
• 17. The moral foundations of army officership / John Mark Mattox -- 18. Military ethics in complex contingencies / Tony Pfaff -- 19. The impact of transformation on the army professional ethic / R.D. Hooker Jr. -- Part VI. The Premier Expertise : Human/Leader Development : -- 20. Principles for building the profession : the SOF experience / T.O. Jacobs and Michael G. Sanders -- 21. The human, spiritual, and ethical dimensions of leadership in preparation for combat / John W. Brinsfield and Peter A. Baktis -- 22. Why professionals fight : combat motivation in the Iraq war / Leonard Wong -- 23. McDonaldization in the U.S. Army : a threat to the profession / Remi Hajjar and Morten G. Ender -- 24. The need to develop expert knowledge of the military family / Todd D. Woodruff and Thomas A. Kolditz -- 25. Developing and using army general officers / Margaret C. Harrell, Harry J. Thie, Peter Schirmer, and Kevin Brancato --^
• 26. From reserve to full partner : transforming reserve professionals / Dallas D. Owens -- 27. Leadershp development beyond traits and competencies / George Reed, Craig Bullis, Ruth Collins, and Christopher Paparone -- 28. Strategic leadership of the army profession / Leonard Wong and Don M. Snider -- Part VII. The Army Profession and Its Political-Cultural Expertiese : -- 29. Rules of the game? : the Weinberger doctrine and the American use of force / Suzanne C. Nielsen -- 30. Infusing normative civil-military relations principles in the officer corps / Marybeth Peterson Ulrich -- 31. Army professionalism : service to what ends? / Martin L. Cook -- 32. Professional leadership and diversity in the army / Mady Wechsler Segal and Chris Bourg -- 33. Root, Miles, and Carter : political-cultural expertise and an earlier army transformation / Matthew Moten.

ISBN

• 0073536091
• 9780073536095

OCLC

• 60688285
• SCSB-12736841

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library