Desertion : trust and mistrust in civil wars / Theodore McLauchlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLauchlin, Theodore, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desertion, Military.

Trust.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Desertions.

Spain.

Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Desertions.

Syria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Theodore McLauchlin's 'Desertion' examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. He explores what might spur widespread desertion in a given group, how some armed groups manage to keep their soldiers fighting over long periods, and how committed soldiers are to their causes and their comrades.

Contents:

Slipping away

Trust, mistrust and desertion in civil wars

Desertion in Civil War Spain: background and research design

Demonstrated valor and loyalty: norms of cooperation and desertion at the micro level

"Collateral damage": coercion and desertion at the micro level

Varieties of voluntarism: the Spanish Republic, summer-fall

Desertion in a changing army: the Popular Army of the Republic, Fall 1936-

Cohesion, coercion and desertion in Franco's army

Trust, mistrust and desertion in the armies of Syria

Conclusion: desertion, armed groups, and civil wars.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9781501752940

1501752944

OCLC:

1145909495