Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-191).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-268).

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006. / Thesis Advisor(s): Stephen L. Mehay, William Bowman. "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-102). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Based on thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University of Belfast, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / After analysing stories of 44 former soldiers from Zimbabwe (39 army deserters and 5 who resigned from the army), I argue that even though they were disillusioned by the Zimbabwe National Army's conduct both in war and during peacetime deployment, in exile in South Africa they continue to hold on to their military identities. While in many studies trained soldiers are presented as capable of becoming civilians in post-combat life, my thesis points to the difficulties associated with such a process. Even though scholars present military identities as fluid, I argue that it is also deeply embodied and expressed through ‘bodily disposition’. In substantiating my argument, I employ Bourdieu’s (1990) theory of habitus and field, to reveal how what was learned in the military is difficult to unlearn. I argue that the practice of clinging onto a soldierly identity is a social and economic resource for the former soldiers who became my research participants. The soldierly habitus is social because of its capacity to elicit and provide a bonding space in the absence of a supportive exile host community. It is a financial resource in the sense that it represents military skills that enable these former soldiers to access productive work in the formal and informal markets. I argue that, even though these former soldiers have the capacity to engage in violence, they have remained disciplined, while skillfully deploying their ‘soldierly-ness’. Although these former soldiers experience nightmares of, for instance, having killed in war, they continue to ‘soldier on’ in their exile context. They journey between two different, but complementary, spaces of healing, the Pentecostal churches and a soldier-in-exile support group. Even so they remain dissatisfied with what both spaces have to offer. The two spaces, with different kinds of support for the former soldiers, present seemingly contradictory results which the soldiers themselves try with limited success to integrate, in rebuilding their lives. They do not find conclusive healing in either space and continue to experience nightmares, while perceiving such a situation as part of the soldiering ‘self’: an on-going military life outside the barracks. Methodologically, I employed qualitative research methods. I utilised ethnographical tools which included the life history approach, field conversations and group discussions in order to understand the exiled soldiers’ past and how and why they have remained stuck in their military past. Having been a soldier in the Zimbabwe National Army myself for more than 10 years, I explain why I found it interesting, yet complex, to study my comrades. The interviews were done in the IsiNdebele and ChiShona languages, with a few done in English. The choice of language was influenced by each former soldier’s preference.

The present study assessed the isokinetic responses of male military personnel(N=42). The study aimed to evaluate the strength capabilities of South African infantrymen and establish benchmark data on a population not previously tested. “Work-simulation” packages have not been widely exploited and this study further aimed to approximate how effectively occupation simulating tasks could identify the capabilities of soldiers. Testing was carried out using a CYBEX 6000 isokinetic dynamometer and involved six laboratory tests (LTs) and four occupation-simulating tests (OSTs). Subjects were required to complete two testing sessions with the order of tests randomized. The LTs consisted of ankle, elbow, hip, knee, shoulder and trunk. In the OSTs, gripping, valve-tightening, wrench-turning and pulling/pushing responses were collected. Slow, medium and fast test speeds were used for each bout. Cardiac responses were measured using heart rate monitoring and perceptual measures assessed using Borg’s (1971) RPE scale. The results of the testing showed significant differences in agonist and antagonist responses at all three testing speeds, the only exception being slow speed trunk values (peak torque). Upper- to lower-extremity ratios highlighted a possible weakness in the elbow flexors group, while correlations between LTs and OSTs highlighted the specificity of strength principle, as poor relationships were observed.

This dissertation is based upon a study of the active service magazines produced by British and Dominion troops serving in the various active war theatres of the First World War. These magazines have never previously been systematically examined, and the dissertation first analyses them as a phenomenon in their own right, then uses them in conjunction with other sources to construct an analysis of morale in the British and Dominion forces and the means by which it was sustained. The analysis of morale and the influences upon it forms the main body of the text. It deals particularly with the infantry, because of the hardness of their lot and their dominant role in mutinies in other armies. It analyses their organisation and conditions of life, but it focuses most attention on the time spent behind the lines in rest and reserve, and particularly on the recreations enjoyed by the troops. It attempts to show that these aspects of the infantrymen's service have been unduly neglected, were important, and had an influence over attitudes throughout the period of service and perhaps even beyond it. Arising from this study, the dissertation seeks to demonstrate a considerable degree of continuity in attitudes, as expressed through the popular cultural media of the troops, from civilian to military life. It considers the importance of this for understanding the behaviour of the men as soldiers and, to a lesser extent, as veterans after the war. It also looks at similarities and differences of background and approach between the various national contingents which made up the British and Dominion forces, and looks briefly at perceived contrasts with other armies. In conclusion, it looks ahead to the use of troop recreations in the Second World War, and attempts to assess their importance in the First, both for morale and for the historiographical debate about continuity and change in the soldiers' experience.

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