Check out this article from our new issue: Of Rivals and Enemies: Military–Police Relations in Internal Armed Conflict in Mexico and Colombia - Andrew Ivey (@drprofivey.bsky.social) #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out this article from our new issue: Fighting to Become One of the Boys: Inattentive (Re)gendering of Military Professionalism Among Danish Soldiers - Helene Pristed Nielsen #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

How will advances in AI shape the future of war? New report: https://bit.ly/4sSVXXS

From our new issue: Substance Use Service Utilization and Barriers to Access Among Homeless Veterans: - Jordan Babando, Justine Levesque, Danika A. Quesnel, Stephanie Laing, Nathaniel Loranger, Arielle Lomness, Philip McCristall #NewIssue #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! From Casualty Aversion to Civilian Protection: Media Enforcement Mechanisms in Post-Heroic Warfare - Elad Popovich, 2026 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this article from our new issue: U.K. Veterans in Prison: Attitudes Toward Authority, Legitimacy, and Compliance With Regime - Daniel Packham #NewIssue #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this article from our new issue: Armed Forces as an Employer of Choice: The Role of Gender and Person–Organization Fit - Nancy Otis, Sarah Jayne A. Connick-Keefer, 2026 #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From our new issue: Army Wives: Exploring the Social Determinants of Health in a Population With Universal Health Care in the United States - J. Dodge, K. Sullivan, J. Merrill, K. Clarke-Walper, L. Riviere, W. Wortham, C. Castro #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Democratic Civilian Control in Limited-Access Orders: Rethinking Civil–Military Relations in Nigeria - Fatai Alli, 2026 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this article from our new issue: National Guard Command Authority and the Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020: Domestic Security Debates for a New Generation of Military Veterans - Jeffrey Lantis #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out this article from our new issue: Motivated to Fight: Diverse Motivations of Foreign Fighters in the Russia–Ukraine War - Ori Swed, Aria Stiefelmaier, Oleksandra Hanchukova, 2026 #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From our new issue: Citizenship Traditions and Cultures of Military Service: Patriotism and Paychecks in Five Democracies - R. Krebs, (@robertralston.bsky.social) T. Balzacq, (@blagdendavid.bsky.social) S. Shenhav, M. Steinbrecher #NewIssue #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New in #OnlineFirst: Book Review: Dictators’ endgames by Aurel Croissant, Tanja Eschenauer-Engler, & David Kuehn - Christoph Harig (@charig.bsky.social), 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this article from our new issue: War Is Back in Post-Heroic Europe: Change and Continuity in the Relationship Between the Armed Forces and Society - Tine Molendijk #NewIssue #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From our new issue: Re-examining Willingness to Fight for One’s Country: Exploring Nature of Conflict and Citizenship Status Effects in the United States and Canada - Christopher Simon, Nicholas Lovrich, Kenneth Verboncoeur, Michael Moltz, 2026 #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our January 2026 Issue is now available! Check it out here! #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/toc/AFS/curr...

New in #OnlineFirst: Professional Military Ethics: An Effective Barrier to Military Politicization in Politically Polarized Environments? A Research Note - Fernando Rodrigues Goulart, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New in #OnlineFirst: Military Interventions and Press–Politics Relations in Turkey - Seren Guven, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you’re in DC tomorrow, or want to participate online for a 4 to 5 pm event on civil-military relations, we’d love to have you in the conversation! Here’s how to rsvp:

Anybody wants to present a civil-military relations panel at APSA, and have papers/abstracts, please send word. I will try to get a panel submission ready.

Scholar spotlight: Heidi Urben is a professor of practice at Georgetown University and has been publishing on and researching important topics in civil-military relations, the military profession, and national security strategy. Thank you, Heidi, for all you do!

Check out this article from our forum on National/Social Resilience: Contradiction of Concordance Theory - Zulfiqar Ali, 2014 #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

My review of 'Dictators' Endgames' by Croissant/Eschenauer-Engler/Kuehn is now out in @afssage.bsky.social The book examines the behaviour of military leaders when a dictator’s political survival depends on their support and is well worth the read journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #CivMilSky

Check out this article from our forum on National/Social Resilience: Military Identity as Predictor of Perceived Military Competence and Skills - Rino Bandlitz Johansen, Jon Christian Laberg, Monica Martinussen, 2014 #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this article from our forum on National/Social Resilience: A Continuum of Nation-State Resiliency to Watershed Terrorist Events - Richard J. Chasdi, 2014 #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out this article from our forum on National/Social Resilience: Searching for Resilience - Sandra Walklate, Ross McGarry, Gabe Mythen, 2014 #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out this article from our forum on National/Social Resilience: Social Resilience in Times of Protracted Crises - Reuven Gal, 2014 #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Scholar spotlight: Patrick Bury (@patrickbury.bsky.social), a Senior Associate Professor at the University of Bath, has been contributing to important conversations on topics like military professionalism, military reserves, and warfare and counterterrorism. Thank you for your work and research!

Interested in delving into the concept of resilience? Check out our 2013 forum on National/Social Resilience, now available free for a limited time #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Network Structure and Military Control in North Korea: A Topic Modeling Analysis on North Korean Dictators’ Speech to the Military - Insoo Kim, Kieun Sung, Sunhong Kim, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Why Americans Consider Joining the Military - Neil Snyder, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Answering the Call of Duty: Examining the Effect of War Legacies on Military Manpower Systems - Kieun Sung, Won-June Hwang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In #OnlineFirst: Broadening Understandings of “Identity” Among Military Partners: A Multidisciplinary Reflection from the United Kingdom A Research Note - R. Gribble, D. Crowe-Urbaniak, A. Cree, E. Senior, E. Huddlestone (@emmahuddlestone.bsky.social) #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: The Medal of Honor, Heroism, and Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century - Anthony King, Patrick Bury (@patrickbury.bsky.social), 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Book Review: The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War by Sarantakes, N.E - Richard J. Chasdi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Scholar spotlight: Thomas Crosbie, an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College, is one of our board members and has been contributing to important conversations on topics like PME, military politics, and media-military relations. Thank you for all you bring to our field!

Scholar spotlight: Matteo Mazziotti di Celso is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Genoa. He recently won the 2025 Moskos Prize from the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society (IUS). Thank you for your invaluable scholarship and perspectives!

Pre-order your copy of "Bend But Do Not Break: Shaping the Future of the All-Volunteer Force," edited by a wonderful group of civ-mil researchers. Ron Krebs and I have a chapter in the book entitled “Polarization, Politicization, and the Future of Democratic Civil-Military Relations.” a.co/d/cLomX8g

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Commentary: Everyday Essentialism and Women’s Experiences in Armed Forces - Yevgeniia Gnatchenko, Ulrike G. Theuerkauf, 2025 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Institutions and Path to Democratic Control of the Military in South Korea: A Research Note - Insoo Kim, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Call of Duty? German Public Opinion on Compulsory Service in Post-Zeitenwende Times - @ronaldschleehauf.bsky.social @judithreinbold.bsky.social @kirareneekurz.bsky.social @mariusfroehle.bsky.social and Sebastian Jäckle journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are you a student or young scholar researching or proposing new civil-military relations theories? If so, Dr. Rebecca Schiff has created her Concordance Fund, which seeks to support students and young scholars studying the relationship between the military and society.

If you haven’t heard yet, we have a new Editor-in-Chief! Dr. Ori Swed is an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University who studies the role of organizations in human security and the privatization of aid and security. Ori took over the role from Pat Shields earlier this year!

Super excited that a new edited volume, Bend But Do Not Break, is coming out, edited by Jaron Wharton, @klkuzminski.bsky.social @jkdemp.bsky.social @mzmargulies.bsky.social Keith Carter, and @carriealee.bsky.social And it’s apparently doing well on the amazons

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Insurgents’ Micro-tactics of Violence: Insights From the Taliban Insurgency - Sanaullah, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Gender on the Front Line: Representations of Female Military Personnel on Ukrainian Social Media - Nadia Iermakov, Nehemia Stern, Uzi Ben-Shalom, 2025 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out the most-cited AF&S articles from the last 3 years! Thank you to all the authors for their incredible scholarship! journals.sagepub.com/action/showM...

New article in #OnlineFirst! “Becoming or Getting by”: Youths’ Inclination to Join a Military Career in Times of Crisis in Brazil - Andreza de Souza Santos, Valeria de Oliveira, Dalson Filho, Antonio dos Santos, Adson Amorim, Gabriel Feltran #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From our new issue: Access and Equity Among Veterans During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research Note - Christos A. Makridis, Gil Alterovitz, Michael Darden, 2025 #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From our new issue: Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note - Morten Nordmo, Lasse Bang, Anders Øvergaard, Ole Christian Lang-Ree, 2025 #OpenAccess #NewIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....