Armed Forces & Society

Armed Forces & Society The journal is international in scope with a focus on interdisciplinary and policy discourse.

Armed Forces & Society (AF&S), a quarterly publication of international scope, publishes articles at the intersection of militaries and societies, war and peace. Armed Forces & Society is a quarterly journal that publishes articles on civil-military relations, veterans, force effectiveness and diversity, military culture, officer education and training, military institutions, ethics, unit cohesion

, military families, peacemaking, privatization, public opinion, and conflict management. The editors and contributors include political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal scholars, historians, and economists, as well as specialists in military organization and strategy, and peacekeeping. Armed Forces & Society invites you to learn more about salient civil-military issues, access current and archived publications, and participate in academic discourse. Armed Forces & Society welcomes scholars and researchers to submit original manuscripts, commentaries, research notes, and book reviews. Be part of the production of knowledge in the field and academic conversation!

Our July 2026 Issue is now available online! This issue included topics such as political ideology and military spending...
06/18/2026

Our July 2026 Issue is now available online! This issue included topics such as political ideology and military spending, AI and security, moral injury, and military leadership, among others. We appreciate every author and reviewer who contributed to this issue! Read the new issue here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/AFS/current

Check out the   AF&S articles from the last 3 years! Thank you to all the authors for their incredible work! https://jou...
06/13/2026

Check out the AF&S articles from the last 3 years! Thank you to all the authors for their incredible work! https://journals.sagepub.com/action/showMostCitedArticles?journalCode=AFS

From our articles:

The Reactivation and Reimagination of Military Conscription in Sweden - Sanna Strand, 2024 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X231164740

Masculine Conformity and Social Dominance’s Relation With Organizational Culture Change - Michelle E. Wu, Adelheid Nicol, Cindy Suurd Ralph, 2026 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X231178522

Multidimensional Measures of Militarization (M3): A Global Dataset - Markus Bayer, Aurel Croissant, Roya Izadi, Nikitas Scheeder, 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X231215295

Militarism and the Politics of Covid-19 Response in Uganda - Moses Khisa, Sabastiano Rwengabo, 2024 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X231162848

Most cited articles published in this journal in the last 3 years. These statistics are updated weekly using data sourced exclusively from CrossRef.

Check out the   AF&S articles from the past couple of months! https://journals.sagepub.com/home/AFSThe Varieties of Civi...
06/09/2026

Check out the AF&S articles from the past couple of months! https://journals.sagepub.com/home/AFS

The Varieties of Civilian Praetorianism: Evidence From Sudan’s Coup Politics - Salah Ben Hammou, 2024 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X231155667

Democratic Backsliding and Militarization in Central America: Overcoming the Moral Hazard Problem - Maren Julia Mainx, 2026 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X261432152

A Seat at the Table: Canada and Its Alliances - Joel J. Sokolsky, 1989 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X8901600103

Polarized Patriots: Political Giving by U.S. Military Officers - Neil Snyder, 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X251346444

Mistrusted to Serve? Discrimination in the Military and Its Impact on Public Support - Jean-Christophe Boucher, Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, Lynne Gouliquer, Steve Saideman, 2026 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X261437281

Armed Forces & Society (AFS) a quarterly publication with international scope publishes articles on civil-military relations, veterans, force effectiveness and diversity, military culture, officer education and training, military institutions, ethics, unit cohesion, military families, peacemaking, p...

In our latest AF&S podcast episode, we provide a synopsis of “Racial Differences in the Impact of Military Service on th...
06/04/2026

In our latest AF&S podcast episode, we provide a synopsis of “Racial Differences in the Impact of Military Service on the Socioeconomic Status of Women Veterans” by Richard Cooney, Mady Wechsler Segal, David Segal, and William Falk. Listen on Apple Podcasts!

Podcast Episode · Sage Sociology · June 3 · 13m

Scholar spotlight: Tamir Libel is a TRAc Starter Project Fellow at the University of Bamberg, where he studies military ...
06/02/2026

Scholar spotlight: Tamir Libel is a TRAc Starter Project Fellow at the University of Bamberg, where he studies military education, comparative study of civil-military relations, Israeli military doctrine, airpower, and intelligence studies. Thank you, Tamir, for your work and research!

Scholar spotlight: Vasabjit Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University ...
05/30/2026

Scholar spotlight: Vasabjit Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and researches insurgencies, civil-military relations, and state-formation. Thank you for your invaluable scholarship and perspectives!

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