Heroism and the Changing Character of War

Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare?

Chapter 2 Heroism and the Nation during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the Age of Military Reform in Europe

Chapter 3 ‘On the Altar of the Nation’: Narratives of Heroic Sacrifice in the American Civil War

Chapter 4 ‘Heroic’ Warfare and the Problem of Mass Armies: France 1871–1914

Chapter 5 Heroism and Self-Sacrifice for the Nation? Wars of National Liberation

Chapter 6 War against Evil: The Second World War

Chapter 7 Mass Armies and the Cold War: Institutional Post-Heroism?

Chapter 8 Heroism and Self-Sacrifice: The Vietnam War as a Case in Point

Chapter 9 The Dilemma of Cosmopolitan Soldiering

Chapter 10 Provocations on Policymakers, Casualty Aversion and Post-Heroic Warfare

Chapter 11 ‘Casualty Aversion’: Media, Society and Public Opinion

Chapter 12 Questioning the Post-Heroic Warfare Logic: Private Contractors, Casualty Sensitivity and Public Support for War in the United States

Chapter 13 Redefining Stand-off Warfare: Modern Efforts and Implications

Chapter 14 Cohesion: Heroic and Post-Heroic Combat

Chapter 15 Inspirational, Aspirational and Operational Heroes: Recruitment, Terror and Heroic Conflict from the Perspective of Armed Groups

Chapter 16 Suicide Bombers: Victims, Heroes or Martyrs?

Chapter 17 The War Within: Moral Injury and Guilt

Chapter 18 The Democratic Warrior and the Emergence of World-Order Conflicts

Chapter 19 Citizenship, Masculinity and Mental Health in the First World War

Chapter 20 Why Soldiers Don’t Fight

Chapter 22 Public Ritual and Remembrance: Beyond the Nation-State?