World Military Leaders

A Collective and Comparative Analysis

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World Military Leaders

A Collective and Comparative Analysis

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Focusing on 45 military leaders from four continents and 13 countries, spread across four centuries, this study paints, for the first time, a collective, comparative portrait of high-ranking military officers. The authors develop an interactional theory of military leaders, stressing the interplay between sociodemographic variables, psychological dynamics, and situational factors. They examine age and birthplace, socioeconomic status, family life, ethnicity and religion, education and occupation, activities and experiences, and ideologies and attitudes. They find military leaders to be a remarkably coherent and homogeneous group of men propelled toward the military by a combination of nationalism, imperialism, relative deprivation, love deprivation, marginality, and vanity.

Table of Contents

Tables
Preface
Introduction
Theory
Military Leaders: An Interactional Theory
Foundations
General Patterns
Seeking Comparative Patterns
Propellants
American Leaders
British Leaders
French Leaders
German Leaders
Other Leaders
Synthesis
Military Leaders in Theoretical Perspective
Appendix: General Code Sheet
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Jan 19 1996
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 188
ISBN 9780275953867
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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