PROFESSIONALISM IN MILITARY: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES

Abstract

Military sociology being a special discipline has resulted in establishment of a permanent study group with contributors in shape of academic scholars and military officers. Based on the works of military profession theorists, modern militaries have adopted a more flexible and technologically advanced outlook with emphasis on professionalism through training, education, mentoring and ethics in order to address and live upto the challenges of 21st century. In these changing and testing times one resounding constant has emerged in the shape of human being and his will to fight as a single most determining factor between winning and losing.

Keywords

• military sociology
• military profession
• techmology
• professionalism
• ethics
• education
• mentoring
• will to fi ght
• determining factor