The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

How do small groups of combat soldiers maintain their cohesion under fire? This question has long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to Sangin, the book puts forward a novel and challenging answer to this question. The Combat Soldier is a work of historical, comparative sociology which examines the evolution ofinfantry tactics in the American, Australian, Canadian, British, French, German, and Italian armies from the First World War to the present in order to address a fundamental question in the social sciences of howsocial solidarity (cohesion) is generated and sustained.

• | Author: Anthony King
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 13, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 560 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0198843771
• | ISBN-13: 9780198843771