This paper assesses how organizational culture affects the fighting performance of units in the battlefield. By focusing on the behavior of a group of Argentine troops during the Falklands War in 1982. Between May 21 and June 14, Argentine and British troops engaged in a fierce land battle for...

The experience of military occupation confronts two groups of people in an asymmetrical relation of power established by the occupiers and suffered by the occupied. Once the occupation ends, this traumatic situation leaves a deep imprint in the memory of the occupied. The occupation of the...

Este trabajo analiza las opiniones públicas de tres de los actores involucrados en la discusión por la soberanía de las Islas Malvinas: los argentinos, los británicos y los isleños en el período que abarca las dos primeras presidencias de la democracia reinstaurada a fines de 1983 en el...

This paper assesses how organizational culture affects the fighting performance of units in the battlefield. By focusing on the behavior of a group of Argentine troops during the Falklands War in 1982. Between May 21 and June 14, Argentine and British troops engaged in a fierce land battle for...

This paper claims that besides training and equipment shortcomings, Argentine command structure was another source of problems that affected the military operations during the Falklands/Malvinas Campaign during April-June 1982. Consequently, the flawed command structure can be seen as a...

Cuando los soldados entran en combate lo hacen en el marco de una organización que los envía y los apoya. De este modo su calidad es puesta a prueba y, por ese motivo, el combate es el momento crítico de toda organización militar. En esa situación su desempeño dependerá no sólo de los...