Risks and Recruitment in Postmodern Armed Forces

The Case of Belgium

Bibliographic Data

ID2340447
AuthorsPhilippe Manigart (Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume31
Issue4
Pages559-582
Publication date2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0095327x0503100406
OpenAlexW2126450613
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited14

Taking the Belgian Armed Forces as a case study, this article assesses the impact of new constabulary missions on the recruitment prospects of military personnel in postmodern armed forces. In particular, it analyzes the complex relationship between these new missions, the risks to personnel, the public image of the armed forces, and recruitment prospects. The article first compares the objective level of risks of various occupations and describes the impact of the Rwandan tragedy on the official Belgian defense policy concerning troop deployments. Second, a theoretical framework is presented within which the issue of risks and recruitment can be analyzed. Finally, empirical data coming from various surveys conducted among representative samples of the Belgian population and of the Belgian Armed Forces are used to illustrate this framework

Military personnel · Political science · Population · Postmodernism · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Demography · Law · Military History and Strategy · Military, Security, and Education Studies

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