1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459392003321

Titolo

Managing military organisations : theory and practice / / edited by Joseph Soeters, Paul C. van Fenema, and Robert Beeres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15481-3

1-135-15482-1

1-282-57033-1

9786612570339

0-203-85710-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Cass military studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BeeresRobertus Johannes Maria <1968->

FenemaPaul van

SoetersJ

Disciplina

355.4

355.6

Soggetti

Military administration

Military administration - Philosophy

Armed Forces - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introducing military organizations; Part I: Context, strategy and external coordination; 2 Leading military organizations in the Risk Society: Mapping the new strategic complexity; 3 Legitimacy and surveillance: Shifting patterns of external control; 4 The internationalization of the armed forces; 5 Research, development and innovation in the military; Part II: Internal coordination and preparation of operations; 6 Expeditionary operations and modular organization design

7 (Re-)drawing the boundaries: Sourcing operational and supportive services in military organizations8 Logistics planning and control: Lessons learned in Afghanistan; Part III: Military organizations in action;



9 Leadership in the face of chaos and danger; 10 Sensemaking during operations and incidents; 11 Managing moral professionalism in military operations; 12 Military law and operations; 13 Trust and control in the military: Dual or dueling forces?; 14 Partnering with 'strangers'; 15 Military organizations and national crisis response

Part IV: Monitoring operational effectiveness and (secondary) outcomes16 Commanding and controlling crisis response operations; 17 Measuring performance in today's missions: The effects-based approach to operations; 18 Learning military organizations and organizational change; 19 Managing the well-being of military personnel and their families; 20 Epilogue: Military organizations' capabilities for heterogeneous value creation; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book considers the benefits of conventional management and organisation theory for the military. At the same time, these essays recognise that the military should be considered as a highly individual organisation, operating in exceptional circumstances. This awareness of the differences between the military and other organisations generat



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816852203321

Autore

Estes Kenneth W. <1947->

Titolo

A European anabasis : Western European volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945 / / Kenneth W. Estes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Solihull, West Midlands, England : , : Helion & Company, , 2015

©2014

ISBN

1-912174-25-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

940.541343

Soggetti

Military service, Voluntary - Europe

World War, 1939-1945 - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Collaborationists

Foreign enlistment - Germany - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-204) and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes shows tremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Two-thirds of the West European volunteers came from Spain and the Netherlands, yet Estes demonstrates wide range and covers Flemish, Walloon, French, Danish, and Norwegian combat units. Avoiding over-generalization, the author distinguishes carefully among the Danes and Flemings who fought competently with the SS-Wiking Division and later with Nordland, the courageous but poorly-armed Spanish, the ill-trained Dutch and French in Landstorm Nederland and SS-Charlemagne, and the Norwegians who after a first wave of enthusiasm held back altogether. Estes pulverizes the Nazi propaganda notion of a multinational European army defending 'Western civilization' against 'Bolshevism'.