Employee Warriors and the Future of the American Fighting Force

By Hugh S. Vest

Book Id: WPLBN0002170236
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Reproduction Date: 10/12/2012

Title:	Employee Warriors and the Future of the American Fighting Force
Author:	Hugh S. Vest
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, Military
Collections:	Authors Community, Technology
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Publisher:	Air University Press

Member Page:	Air University Press
Citation APA MLA Chicago S. Ves, B. H. (n.d.). Employee Warriors and the Future of the American Fighting Force. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
As the nation’s campaign against terrorism proceeds, our military services continue to embrace high technology, advanced sensors, and precision weaponry for use on current battlefields. The term cyber warrior has truly stepped from the pages of science fiction into reality. Equipment and technology do not constitute the only developments, however, because today’s cyber warriors emerge from a society and military culture very different in many respects from those of past generations of warriors.

Table of Contents
1 EMPLOYEE WARRIORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Values Crisis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Harnessing a Different Military . . . . . . . . . . 3 Cultures in Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 2 TRADITIONAL MILITARY CULTURE . . . . . . .7 Professionalism and Homogeneity . . . . . . . .7 Fraternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Institutional Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Value Studies of the Military . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Traditional Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 THE NEW BUSINESS-SCIENTIFIC CULTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 New World Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Volunteer Fighting Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Occupational Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Technology and the Great Engineering Venture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Civilian Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Force of Specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Corporate Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Organizational and Sociological Trends . . . .18 Modern Military Society in Focus . . . . . . . .20 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4 QUALITY AND LEADERSHIP . . . . . . . . . . .23 Marginal Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 McNamara and Systems Theories . . . . . . . .24 Scientific Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Limits of Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Total Quality Management . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Quality and the Defense Department . . . . . 28 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5 EQUALITY, AUTHORITY, AND FRATERNITY . 33 Revolutionary Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Aristocracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Republicanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Social Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Individualism and Virtual Isolation . . . . . . .38 Democratic Society and Military Tradition . . 40 Changing Patterns of Authority and Sacrifice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Diversity and Fraternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 6 TOMORROW’S CYBER WARRIORS . . . . . .47 Tomorrow’s Battlefields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Equipping the Cyber Warrior . . . . . . . . . . .50 Lessons Learned from the Gulf War . . . . . . 52 TRADOC Looks Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Postwar Studies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Institutionalism for Tomorrow? . . . . . . . . . 56 Blueprint for a Culture in Transition . . . . . . 58 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69