Understanding Rebellion in the Military During Wartime

了解战时军队的叛乱

• 批准号: 2241891
• 负责人: Dana Moss
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241891&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Rebellion; Military; During; Wartime

Rebellion in the military takes a variety of forms, including mutiny, sabotage, combat refusals, illegal drug use, and going AWOL (absent without leave). Such actions are severely punished, particularly during wartime. This study investigates when such rebellions emerge and when they succeed in changing warmaking and policy. This research focuses on one of the most notable but understudied rebellions over the last century, which occurred during the US-led war in Vietnam (1965-75). Despite the risks and costs of rebelling, American GIs led intra-military mutinies, attacks against officers, military prison riots, anti-war protests, and other kinds of rebellions. By 1970, disciplinary breakdown across the military prompted the US government to withdraw its ground forces and end the draft altogether in 1973. Despite the importance of military rebellion in shaping warmaking, political control, and state-society relations, however, little is known about when and how service members rebelled, or why they choose very different tactics when responding to grievances. This study conducts approximately 300 in-depth, semi-structured interviews of Vietnam veterans of varied backgrounds and service histories. Transcribed interviews are coded using a two-stage process in qualitative software, according to the principles of grounded theory and process tracing methods, to uncover the meso- and micro-level mechanisms giving rise of rebellions and their varied forms. These data are supplemented with archival and secondary sources, including newspaper reports and government documents, to verify and elaborate on the interview data. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from political and military science, criminology and psychology, history and area studies, and peace studies, this project’s findings increase public knowledge, improve decision making, and advance the study of military loyalty and dissent.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

军队中的叛乱采取了多种形式，包括叛变，破坏性，战斗拒绝，非法吸毒和AWOL（不离开）。这种行动受到严重惩罚，尤其是在战时。这项研究调查了这种叛乱何时出现，何时成功改变了变暖和政策。这项研究重点是上个世纪最著名的叛乱之一，这是在美国领导的越南战争期间（1965-75）发生的。尽管有叛逆的风险和成本，但美国GIS仍带领军事内部叛变，对军官的袭击，军事监狱骚乱，反战抗议和其他类型的叛乱。到1970年，整个军方的纪律处分促使美国政府撤回其地面力量，并于1973年完全结束草案。尽管军事叛乱在塑造温暖，政治控制和国家社会关系方面的重要性很重要，然而，对何时和如何反叛的服务成员，或者为什么选择对申诉做出反应非常不同的策略。这项研究对越南各种背景和服务历史的越南退伍军人进行了大约300个深入的半结构化访谈。根据扎根的理论和过程追踪方法的原理，使用定性软件中的两个阶段过程进行抄录访谈，以发现叛乱及其多样性形式的中间和微观机制。这些数据补充了档案和次要来源，包括报纸报告和政府文件，以验证和详细说明面试数据。该项目的研究结果借鉴了政治和军事科学，犯罪学和心理学，历史和区域研究以及和平研究的跨学科观点，提高了公众知识，改善决策，并提高对军事忠诚度和异议的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的范围来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是宝贵的支持。