OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Armed Forces & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How Does Military Experience Affect Employment: Evidence From China	18
Archetype Profiles of Military Spouses in Australia–Identifying Perfect Partners and Mean Girls	15
Just Paying Lip Service? Public Trust and Public Support for Armed Forces in Germany	12
Book Review: Training and deployment of America’s nuclear cold warriors in Asia: Keepers of Armageddon RabsonS. (2022). Training and deployment of America’s nuclear cold warriors in Asia: Keepers of A	12
“Leaning In” or “Taking a Knee”: Career Trajectories of Senior Leaders in the Canadian Armed Forces	11
Calling out the Troops to Manage Environmental and Health Crises in Australia: Public Understandings of Domestic Armed Forces Operations	11
“She Clearly Thought That Something Bad Had Happened to Her”: How Military Lawyers Construct Narratives of Victim Legitimacy and Perceived Harm in Sexual Assault Cases	10
Book Review: “German Warriors: From the Empire to the Berlin Republic—A Military History.”Deutsche Krieger: Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik—Eine Militärgeschichte by Sönke Neitzel	10
Sentiment Analysis of Russian-Language Social Media Posts Discussing the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	9
Introduction to the Symposium on National Security and Social Science	9
U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers’ Motivations for Joining the Military and Their Effects on Post-Deployment Mental Health	9
Income Security for Vietnam-Era Veterans: A Research Note	9
Perceptions of Women in U.S. Army Combat Units: A Mixed-Methods Study Post-Gender Integration	8
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies	8
Developing Effective Small Team Army Leaders: A Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trial of the Squad Leader Development Course	7
Why Did the Taliban Win?	7
Who Lost Afghanistan? Samuel Huntington and the Decline of Strategic Thinking	7
Substance Use Service Utilization and Barriers to Access Among Homeless Veterans: A Scoping Review	6
If You’ll Be My Bodyguard: Presidential Guard Units and Leader Capture During Coups d’état	6
Do Elections Cause Military Spending to Go Up or Down? New International Evidence	5
My Commander in Chief is Black! The Mental Health Significance of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Election for Military Veterans	5
Adjudicating Competing Theories: Does Civilian Control Over the Military Decrease Conflict?	5
Access and Equity Among Veterans During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research Note	5
Motivated to Fight: Diverse Motivations of Foreign Fighters in the Russia–Ukraine War	5
Civil–Military Relations and Education of Military Elites in Türkiye: Lessons Learned From the Past	5

Hazardous Duty: Investigating Resistance to Police at the Point of Arrest Among Incarcerated Military Veterans	5
Mortality Among Individuals Released From U.S. Prisons: Does Military History Matter?	5
American Civil–Military Relations and Presidential Power of Removal	4
Neither a Conscript Army nor an All-Volunteer Force: Emerging Recruiting Models	4
Subjective and Objective Measurement of Underemployment and Income Among Post-9/11 Veterans	4
Theories of Democratic Civil–Military Relations and the Enduring Value of the Citizen-Soldier Ideal	4
Multinational Military Cooperation in the Global South	4
The Health and Quality of Life of Dutch Peacekeeping Veterans, 40 Years After the Mission, and Their Association With Deployment-Related Stressors	4
Brothers in Arms? Estonia’s Defense Forces and the Trojan Horse Dilemma	4
A Problem in the Huntingtonian Universe: The Military Side of the Gap	3
“Mom Calling the Commanding Officer”: The Changing Relationship Between Mothers and Their Sons Serving in Israel Defense Forces	3
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative?	3
Family Welfare During the Deployment of Ghana Armed Forces in Peacekeeping Missions: Exploring the Role of “Military Surrogacy”	3
Stolen Valor: The Legal Story Behind Impersonating Military Personnel	3
Bridging the Gap? Ex-Military Personnel and Military–Civilian Transition Within the Prison Workforce	3
How Mandatory Military Service Can Divide Rather Than Unite: Conscription, Gender, and Military Trust in South Korea 2003–2021	3
Managerialism and the Military: Consequences for the Swedish Armed Forces	3
Stabilization of Anti-U.S. Military Bases Sentiment: Japan’s Evolving Compensation Policies and Base Politics in Okinawa	3
Editor’s Note: Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	3
Book Review: The art of military innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces by Luttwak, E. N., & Shamir, E.	3
Rural Military Veterans of Color and STEM Occupational Outcomes	3
Visualizing the Ties That Bind Us: A Cross-Sectional Thematic and Visual Analysis of Cohesion Across Three British Military Formations	3
Book Review: Teaching and Learning the West Point Way by Ender, M. G., Kimball, R. A., Sondheimer, R. M., & Bruhl, J. C.	3
The Afghanistan War’s Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security	3
Trump(ing) Tradition: Old Laws, New Norms, and the Danger to Civil–Military Relations	3
Women in the Military: Navigating Through Female Life Stages and Military Career by “Acting Normally”	3
Virtuous Shirking and Social Distance: Concept Measurement in the Context of Militarized Response to Nonviolent Revolution	3
Armed Forces as an Employer of Choice: The Role of Gender and Person–Organization Fit	3
Commentary on the Standard Model of Military Group Cohesion	3
The Empirical Determinants of Violent Nonstate Actor Drone Adoption	2
Perspectives on Military Culture Among Veterans With a Recent Suicide Attempt: Illustrating Gender Differences and Informing Suicide Prevention	2
“A Hidden Community”: The Experiences of Help-Seeking and Receiving Mental Health Treatment in U.K. Women Veterans. A Qualitative Study	2
Gender Disparities in Active Duty Air Force Parents’ Childcare Access: Pre-Pandemic Costs, Utilization, and Career Impacts	2
A Playstation Mentality to Killing? Adverse Psychological Consequences in Drone Pilots and the Stigmatization thereof in the Military	2
The Rebel and the Politician: Developing a Typology of Insurgent Civil–Military Relations	2
Mental Health of Canadian Children Growing Up in Military Families: The Child Perspective	2
Narratives Around Civil–Military Cooperation: How Institutionalized Discourses Influence Learning in Peace Operations	2
Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	2
Committed to its Founding Principles: 50 Years of Armed Forces & Society Journal	2
Moral Injury: A Framework for Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Men	2
Book Review: Thanks for your service: The causes and consequences of public confidence in the U.S. military by Feaver, P. D.	2
Navigating Change From Within: The Impact and Challenges of a Women’s Virtual Community in Transforming Gender Dynamics in the Israel Defense Forces	2
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions: Then and Now	2
Is There a Public–Military Gap in the United States? Evaluating Foundational Foreign Policy Beliefs	2
Citizenship, Enmity, and the Normative Theory of Domestic Military Use	2
Re-examining Willingness to Fight for One’s Country: Exploring Nature of Conflict and Citizenship Status Effects in the United States and Canada	2
State-Building 101: Hard Lessons From Afghanistan	2
Revisiting Military as a Total Institution: The Case of Conscript Service in Estonia	2
Right or Wrong? The Civil–Military Problematique and Armed Forces & Society’s 50th	2
Concordance Theory: A Retrospective on the Creation of New Civil–Military Relations Theory	2

Two World Views? How Regular and Reserve Royal Marines Perceive Each Other	2
Book Review: Embracing senior leadership: Three critical factors needed to reach the C-suite and thrive by James W. Browning	2
The Varieties of Civilian Praetorianism: Evidence From Sudan’s Coup Politics	2
Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants—Two Decades On: A Research Note	2
The Science of Charles C. Moskos: From Institution to Occupation	2
Transformational Leadership in Extreme Contexts: Associations with Posttraumatic Growth and Self-Efficacy Among Combat Veterans	2
Workplace Stress in Military Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Research Note	2
A Mediated Model of Female Navy Personnel’s Personality Traits, Sexism, and Bystander Attitude Toward Sexual Harassment in Taiwan	2
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women Veterans: A Research Note	2
The Best They Could Do? Assessing U.S. Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War	2
Do the Best and Brightest West Point Officers Stay in or Leave the Army?	2
U.K. Veterans in Prison: Attitudes Toward Authority, Legitimacy and Compliance With Regime	2
Professional Socialization During Restructuring: A Study of Workload and Career Time	2
Book Review: Corporate Security Surveillance: An Assessment of Host Country Vulnerability to Terrorism by Chasdi, R.J.	2
NATO’s Struggle for Intelligence in Afghanistan	2
The Growing Conservatism of White Veterans Since the 1970s	2
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria	2
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking	2
Predicting Loyalty: Examining the Role of Social Identity and Leadership in an Extreme Operational Environment—A Swedish Case	1
Book Review: Threat multiplier: Climate, military leadership, and the fight for global security	1
Of Rivals and Enemies: Military–Police Relations in Internal Armed Conflict in Mexico and Colombia	1
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Military, Veteran, and Civilian Families	1
Military Professionalism, Power, and the Division of Labor: The Case of the Reintroduction of NCOs in the Swedish Armed Forces	1
A Comparative Study of Military Communication on Instagram: A Research Note	1
Arrests, Mental Health Outcomes, and Discharge Status in U.S. Military Veterans: A Latent Class Analysis	1
Book Review: Military Sociology: A Guided Introduction by Wilbur J. Scott, Karin Modesto De Angelis, and David R. Segal	1
The Relationship Between Military Service and Legislative Behavior for U.S. Representatives in Recent Congresses	1
Between “Victims” and Their “Saviors”: Process-Based Leadership and Trust Building in Civil–Military Relations in Northern Nigeria	1
Book Review: Mightier Than the Sword: Civilian Control of the Military and the Revitalization of Democracy	1
Political Giving by Retired U.S. General and Flag Officers	1
We (All) Want You? Perceived Military Leadership Potential and Actual Leadership Role Occupancy in Working Life: A Longitudinal Study of a Swedish Cohort	1
Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Energy Capabilities, and International Security: An Exploratory Analysis	1
Making Ends Meet: Employment, Cash Transfers, and Poverty in Post–9/11 Era Wounded Military Veterans	1
The Military As a Non-Caring Institution: A Case Study of Nigerian Military Widows of the Boko Haram Conflict	1
“I Just Don’t Want to Be Part of It Anymore”: How Harm and Betrayal Erode Cohesion in the Aftermath of Military Sexual Misconduct	1
The Military Covenant, Contractual Relations, and Social Cohesion in Democracies: Estonia as an Exploratory Case Study	1
How do Sociodemographic Characteristics Influence UK Civilian Opinions of UK Armed Forces Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans? A Mixed-Method Approach	1
Military Duty during Mission Deployment: Exploring Local Relations and Dynamics of Cohesion—The Case of Swedish Troops	1
Killing in Combat as a Potentially Morally Injurious Event: The Diverging Psychological Impact of Killing on Peacekeepers and Combat-Oriented Troops	1
Book Review: The absent dialogue: Politicians, bureaucrats, and the military in India, by Anit Mukherjee	1
Cohesion, Combat Performance and Civil-Military Relations: Contextualizing “The Word of Command”	1
Conscription and Political Participation: How Conscription Policies Affect Voter Turnout	1
The Rise of the Militarized State? African Developmental Militarism, Public Works Projects, and Praetorian Politics in Kenya	1
An Exemplary Defeat: The West in Afghanistan, 2001–2021	1
Expanding the New Roles of the Military—The Case of Spain’s Military Emergency Unit: A Research Note	1
Civilian Control, Civil–Military Friction, and Foreign Military Intervention	1
Sexual Misconduct in the Military: The Impact of Situational Factors on Bystander Intervention Strategies	1
Domestic Military Deployments in Response to COVID-19	1
Complicating Entanglements: Societal Factors Intruding in the Ghana Armed Forces’ Civil–Military Relations	1
Are the U.S. Military’s Nonpartisan Norms Eroding?	1
Is Transformational Military Leadership Out There? An Exploratory Research Study of Military Teams in Action	1
Armed Non-State Actor-Perpetrated Civilian Victimization in Armed Conflict: An Opportunity Cost Argument	1
Military Competence-in-Use in the Expeditionary Era: A Swedish Example From Missions Abroad	1
Power Sharing and Coups d’état in Postconflict Settings: Evidence From Burundi and Guinea-Bissau	1
Professionalized Heroism? Comparing US, UK, and Norwegian War Decorations From the War in Afghanistan	1
Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training	1
Differences in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Between U.S. Civilians and Military Veterans in the Gulf War and Post-9/11 War Eligibility Cohorts: A Research Note	1
Book Review: Kings, conquerors, psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the corporation	1
Autocratic Leaders, Combat Experience, and Interstate Conflict: Evidence From Iraq	1
Complexities and Possibilities of Strengthening the Social Inclusion of Military Women in the Netherlands Armed Forces: Findings From an Action Research Project	1
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Armed Forces & Society: An Introduction	1
The Effects of Military Lifestyle and Operational Deployments on Marital Dynamics: A Qualitative Study of Military Spouses in Türkiye	1
Perceptions of Espoused Versus Enacted Culture Around Sexual Misconduct and Other Offenses Among U.S. Military Service Members	1
Revisiting Propensity to Serve and Motivations to Enlist: Insights and Implications for Contemporary Military Recruitment Challenges and Research	1
Soldier Retention in the Indian Military: Unraveling the Role of Pay, Promotion and Job Satisfaction	1
U.S. Veterans and Civilians Describe Military News Coverage as Mediocre, Think Stories Affect Others More Than Themselves	1