The combat soldier: infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

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Notes

1 Compare to Janowitz, (1964, p. 5). Through the required expertise “in the management of violence, to which end [the military] develops a range of specialist skills which improve its performance in combat.” Further, a modern professional infantry soldier is unlike Moskos (1970) argues not a mere paid functionary but an “individual committed to soldiering as a vocation, ideally fascinated by every dimension of tactics”. King (2013, p. 221).

2 King unites Moskos, Kier and MacCoun to come up with his definition of unit cohesion.