David Mccone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4186911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mccone |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccone |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Air Force Academy |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7293-9850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking
This article provides an account of the founding, growth, and success of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society (IUS), a long-established professional organization for those studying the military and war. How IUS has thrived invites explanation. Two theoretical themes guide our effort: first, the life cycles of organizations literature, and two, a complementary focus on the professional-career life cycles of IUS's participants. To…
New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare
The U.S. military is designed to take on a similarly constructed foreign military located across some line of demarcation. The goal of such conventional warfare is to incapacitate or annihilate the enemy military, whereupon victory is achieved – a task for which the U.S. military has no peer on the current world scene or the foreseeable future. However, the U.S.'s adversaries since the end of the Cold War have not been conventional forces, as evi…
The Deployment Experiences of Ft. Carson's Soldiers in Iraq: Thinking about and Training for Full-Spectrum Warfare
William Lind has argued that the U.S. military is improperly configured and trained to fight 'fourth-generation' wars, that is, ones in which one of the participants is a nonstate actor and where the strategy, tactics, and battlefield are unconventional. This position has slowly gained acceptance among U.S. Army and Marine commanders, who have struggled to adapt to fourth-generation realities on the ground in Iraq. Drawing on oral-history and foc…
Psychological Contracts in two U.S. Combat Units in Iraq: What Happens when Expectations and Realities Diverge
U.S. soldiers deploying to Iraq in 2003 were told that the war was necessary to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction and had expected to fight a near-peer enemy using conventional tactics. Instead, they encountered a very different battlefield and, to date, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. This paper focuses on this apparent violation of soldiers' expectations. We analyze oral histories collected from two units of Ft. …
The Deployment Experiences of Ft. Carson's Soldiers in Iraq: Thinking about and Training for Full-Spectrum Warfare
William Lind has argued that the U.S. military is improperly configured and trained to fight 'fourth-generation' wars, that is, ones in which one of the participants is a nonstate actor and where the strategy, tactics, and battlefield are unconventional. This position has slowly gained acceptance among U.S. Army and Marine commanders, who have struggled to adapt to fourth-generation realities on the ground in Iraq. Drawing on oral-history and foc…
Psychological Contracts in two U.S. Combat Units in Iraq: What Happens when Expectations and Realities Diverge
U.S. soldiers deploying to Iraq in 2003 were told that the war was necessary to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction and had expected to fight a near-peer enemy using conventional tactics. Instead, they encountered a very different battlefield and, to date, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. This paper focuses on this apparent violation of soldiers' expectations. We analyze oral histories collected from two units of Ft. …
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking
This article provides an account of the founding, growth, and success of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society (IUS), a long-established professional organization for those studying the military and war. How IUS has thrived invites explanation. Two theoretical themes guide our effort: first, the life cycles of organizations literature, and two, a complementary focus on the professional-career life cycles of IUS's participants. To…
Psychological Contracts in two U.S. Combat Units in Iraq: What Happens when Expectations and Realities Diverge
U.S. soldiers deploying to Iraq in 2003 were told that the war was necessary to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction and had expected to fight a near-peer enemy using conventional tactics. Instead, they encountered a very different battlefield and, to date, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. This paper focuses on this apparent violation of soldiers' expectations. We analyze oral histories collected from two units of Ft. …
New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare
The U.S. military is designed to take on a similarly constructed foreign military located across some line of demarcation. The goal of such conventional warfare is to incapacitate or annihilate the enemy military, whereupon victory is achieved – a task for which the U.S. military has no peer on the current world scene or the foreseeable future. However, the U.S.'s adversaries since the end of the Cold War have not been conventional forces, as evi…
The Deployment Experiences of Ft. Carson's Soldiers in Iraq: Thinking about and Training for Full-Spectrum Warfare
William Lind has argued that the U.S. military is improperly configured and trained to fight 'fourth-generation' wars, that is, ones in which one of the participants is a nonstate actor and where the strategy, tactics, and battlefield are unconventional. This position has slowly gained acceptance among U.S. Army and Marine commanders, who have struggled to adapt to fourth-generation realities on the ground in Iraq. Drawing on oral-history and foc…
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking
This article provides an account of the founding, growth, and success of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society (IUS), a long-established professional organization for those studying the military and war. How IUS has thrived invites explanation. Two theoretical themes guide our effort: first, the life cycles of organizations literature, and two, a complementary focus on the professional-career life cycles of IUS's participants. To…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Military History and Strategy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Adversary (2 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · Battlefield (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Computer security (2 works)