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Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
The Ross Ellis Annual Memorial Lecture in Military and Strategic Studies
Misplaced Loyalties: The Role of Military Culture in the Breakdown of Discipline in Two Peace Operations
By Dr. Donna Winslow
Abstract
Leo Tolstoy once wrote that the deeper we delve in search of causes, the more of them we discover. And each single cause or series of causes appears to us equally valid in itself, and equally false by its insignificance compared to the magnitude of the event. Today I wish to talk to you about just one set of possible causes for the breakdown of discipline in two peace operations—the Canadian deployment to Somalia and the events which occurred in Bacovici in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Being a cultural anthropologist my intention of course is to talk about culture and particularly military culture and the role this culture can play in operations other than war.