General Introduction -- Some Historical Notes -- Social Research and the Military -- Theoretical and Methodological Orientations -- Models and Explanations for Military Organization: An Updated Reconsideration -- The Order of Violence -- The Military and the Use of Force -- Military Mobilization in Modern Western Societies -- Armed Forces and Society -- Civil-Military Relations -- Democratic Control of Armed Forces -- The Military as a Tribe among Tribes -- Soldiers and Governments in Postpraetorian Africa -- Military Families and the Armed Forces -- Implications for Military Families of Changes in the Armed Forces of the United States -- Inside The Military -- Military Culture -- Military Officer Education -- Women in the Military -- Diversity in the Armed Forces -- Unionization of the Military -- Trends in the Military: Conversion and Restructuring -- Restructuring of the Armed Forces -- Conversion of the Military -- The Decline of the European Mass Armies -- Technology, Organization, and Power -- New Missions -- Building Flexible Forces for the 21st Century -- A Soldier Is a Soldier Is a Soldier!? -- Conclusions -- Conclusion.