Terrorist attacks in the United States and in Western Europe have been rare, and public
awareness of the terrorist menace has largely been molded by a few horrific events. In …

Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise
increasingly sophisticated data gathering tools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory …

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been
perceived not only as the guardian of national survival, but also as a'people's …

This article suggests a new perspective for examining the particular social and
organizational characteristics of military reserves forces and the special experiences of …

The Pakistani military is invested with symbolic significance, embodying reverence, pride
and loyalty for the Pakistani populace at large. Maria Rashid's Dying to serve: militarism …

The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the
national point of view. This book asks what happens when narratives of war arise out of …

As an epilogue to the present volume, this article picks up its central themes. It elaborates
some of the main points about casualty aversion that are made in the preceding …

Serving as replicas of the social structures of communities, cemeteries can be analyzed for
the cultural patterns they reflect as an historical record. Currently, American culture, referred …

This engaging new book takes a fresh approach to the major topics surrounding the
processes and rituals of death and dying in the United States. It emphasizes individual …

Even when the timing, sequence, and manner of notification are instrumentally
inconsequential, how one conveys information affects the meaning of the telling. This article …