OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Armed Forces & Society is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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	21
How Does Military Experience Affect Employment: Evidence From China	19
“Leaning In” or “Taking a Knee”: Career Trajectories of Senior Leaders in the Canadian Armed Forces	14
Just Paying Lip Service? Public Trust and Public Support for Armed Forces in Germany	14
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	13
U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers’ Motivations for Joining the Military and Their Effects on Post-Deployment Mental Health	12
Calling out the Troops to Manage Environmental and Health Crises in Australia: Public Understandings of Domestic Armed Forces Operations	11
Sentiment Analysis of Russian-Language Social Media Posts Discussing the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	11
Academic–Military Relations in U.S. and Allied Professional Military Education Organizations, 1991–2024: A Comparative Analysis and Proposed Typology	10
“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
Perceptions of Women in U.S. Army Combat Units: A Mixed-Methods Study Post-Gender Integration	10
Developing Effective Small Team Army Leaders: A Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trial of the Squad Leader Development Course	9
Introduction to the Symposium on National Security and Social Science	8
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies	8
Call of Duty? German Public Opinion on Compulsory Service in Post- Zeitenwende Times	7
Do Elections Cause Military Spending to Go Up or Down? New International Evidence	7
Why Did the Taliban Win?	7
Access and Equity Among Veterans During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research Note	7
Who Lost Afghanistan? Samuel Huntington and the Decline of Strategic Thinking	7
Income Security for Vietnam-Era Veterans: A Research Note	7
My Commander in Chief is Black! The Mental Health Significance of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Election for Military Veterans	6
Adjudicating Competing Theories: Does Civilian Control Over the Military Decrease Conflict?	6
If You’ll Be My Bodyguard: Presidential Guard Units and Leader Capture During Coups d’état	6
Substance Use Service Utilization and Barriers to Access Among Homeless Veterans: A Scoping Review	6
Brothers in Arms? Estonia’s Defense Forces and the Trojan Horse Dilemma	5

Motivated to Fight: Diverse Motivations of Foreign Fighters in the Russia–Ukraine War	5
Mortality Among Individuals Released From U.S. Prisons: Does Military History Matter?	5
The Health and Quality of Life of Dutch Peacekeeping Veterans, 40 Years After the Mission, and Their Association With Deployment-Related Stressors	5
Civil–Military Relations and Education of Military Elites in Türkiye: Lessons Learned From the Past	5
American Civil–Military Relations and Presidential Power of Removal	5
Multinational Military Cooperation in the Global South	5
Theories of Democratic Civil–Military Relations and the Enduring Value of the Citizen-Soldier Ideal	5
Subjective and Objective Measurement of Underemployment and Income Among Post-9/11 Veterans	5
Neither a Conscript Army nor an All-Volunteer Force: Emerging Recruiting Models	5
How Mandatory Military Service Can Divide Rather Than Unite: Conscription, Gender, and Military Trust in South Korea 2003–2021	4
Visualizing the Ties That Bind Us: A Cross-Sectional Thematic and Visual Analysis of Cohesion Across Three British Military Formations	4
Book Review: Teaching and Learning the West Point Way by Ender, M. G., Kimball, R. A., Sondheimer, R. M., & Bruhl, J. C.	4
“Mom Calling the Commanding Officer”: The Changing Relationship Between Mothers and Their Sons Serving in Israel Defense Forces	4
Commentary on the Standard Model of Military Group Cohesion	4
Rural Military Veterans of Color and STEM Occupational Outcomes	4
Women in the Military: Navigating Through Female Life Stages and Military Career by “Acting Normally”	3
Family Welfare During the Deployment of Ghana Armed Forces in Peacekeeping Missions: Exploring the Role of “Military Surrogacy”	3
Trump(ing) Tradition: Old Laws, New Norms, and the Danger to Civil–Military Relations	3
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women Veterans: A Research Note	3
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria	3
State-Building 101: Hard Lessons From Afghanistan	3
A Mediated Model of Female Navy Personnel’s Personality Traits, Sexism, and Bystander Attitude Toward Sexual Harassment in Taiwan	3
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking	3
The Empirical Determinants of Violent Nonstate Actor Drone Adoption	3
Book Review: The art of military innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces by Luttwak, E. N., & Shamir, E.	3
Institutions and Path to Democratic Control of the Military in South Korea: A Research Note	3
Stolen Valor: The Legal Story Behind Impersonating Military Personnel	3
Editor’s Note: Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	3
Armed Forces as an Employer of Choice: The Role of Gender and Person–Organization Fit	3
Workplace Stress in Military Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Research Note	3
NATO’s Struggle for Intelligence in Afghanistan	3
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in Military Services: Culture, Hypermasculinity, and the Futility of Zero-Tolerance Approaches	3
The Science of Charles C. Moskos: From Institution to Occupation	3
The Propensity of Veteran-Owned Firms to Provide Employee Benefit Programs: A Test of Military Imprinting Versus Business Pragmatism	3
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative?	3
A Problem in the Huntingtonian Universe: The Military Side of the Gap	3
The Afghanistan War’s Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security	3
Stabilization of Anti-U.S. Military Bases Sentiment: Japan’s Evolving Compensation Policies and Base Politics in Okinawa	3
Virtuous Shirking and Social Distance: Concept Measurement in the Context of Militarized Response to Nonviolent Revolution	3
Navigating Change From Within: The Impact and Challenges of a Women’s Virtual Community in Transforming Gender Dynamics in the Israel Defense Forces	3
“A Hidden Community”: The Experiences of Help-Seeking and Receiving Mental Health Treatment in U.K. Women Veterans. A Qualitative Study	3
Gender Disparities in Active Duty Air Force Parents’ Childcare Access: Pre-Pandemic Costs, Utilization, and Career Impacts	3
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions: Then and Now	3
Re-examining Willingness to Fight for One’s Country: Exploring Nature of Conflict and Citizenship Status Effects in the United States and Canada	2
The Military Covenant, Contractual Relations, and Social Cohesion in Democracies: Estonia as an Exploratory Case Study	2
Gender on the Front Line: Representations of Female Military Personnel on Ukrainian Social Media	2
The Growing Conservatism of White Veterans Since the 1970s	2
The Rebel and the Politician: Developing a Typology of Insurgent Civil–Military Relations	2
Book Review: Military politics: New perspectives CrosbieT. (Ed.). (2023). Military politics: New perspectives. Berghahn Books. 262 pp. $135.00. ISBN: 978-1-80539-023-7	2
Two World Views? How Regular and Reserve Royal Marines Perceive Each Other	2

A Playstation Mentality to Killing? Adverse Psychological Consequences in Drone Pilots and the Stigmatization thereof in the Military	2
The Best They Could Do? Assessing U.S. Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War	2
Committed to its Founding Principles: 50 Years of Armed Forces & Society Journal	2
Armed Non-State Actor-Perpetrated Civilian Victimization in Armed Conflict: An Opportunity Cost Argument	2
Book Review: Thanks for your service: The causes and consequences of public confidence in the U.S. military by Feaver, P. D.	2
Digital Agenda-Building on X: A Case Study of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Communication During the Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis	2
Citizenship, Enmity, and the Normative Theory of Domestic Military Use	2
Perspectives on Military Culture Among Veterans With a Recent Suicide Attempt: Illustrating Gender Differences and Informing Suicide Prevention	2
Revisiting Military as a Total Institution: The Case of Conscript Service in Estonia	2
Mental Health of Canadian Children Growing Up in Military Families: The Child Perspective	2
Soldier Retention in the Indian Military: Unraveling the Role of Pay, Promotion and Job Satisfaction	2
Book Review: The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War by Sarantakes, N.E SarantakesN.E. (2025). The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory i	2
Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	2
Making Ends Meet: Employment, Cash Transfers, and Poverty in Post–9/11 Era Wounded Military Veterans	2
Narratives Around Civil–Military Cooperation: How Institutionalized Discourses Influence Learning in Peace Operations	2
U.K. Veterans in Prison: Attitudes Toward Authority, Legitimacy and Compliance With Regime	2
Moral Injury: A Framework for Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Men	2
Concordance Theory: A Retrospective on the Creation of New Civil–Military Relations Theory	2
Crisis Response and Institutional Learning in the Israeli Military: Negotiating Transparency and Security in the Aftermath of the Tze’elim Training Accidents	2
Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants—Two Decades On: A Research Note	2
A Knowledge Taxonomy for Military Interoperability: The United States and Brazil in Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations	2
Are the U.S. Military’s Nonpartisan Norms Eroding?	2
Unequal Suffering of War: Combat Participation, Regime Type, and Leaders’ Health	2
Book Review: Embracing senior leadership: Three critical factors needed to reach the C-suite and thrive by James W. Browning	2
Right or Wrong? The Civil–Military Problematique and Armed Forces & Society’s 50th	2
Book Review: Corporate Security Surveillance: An Assessment of Host Country Vulnerability to Terrorism by Chasdi, R.J.	2
Book Review: Threat multiplier: Climate, military leadership, and the fight for global security	2
The Varieties of Civilian Praetorianism: Evidence From Sudan’s Coup Politics	2
Do the Best and Brightest West Point Officers Stay in or Leave the Army?	2