Resilience: Militaries and Militarization

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Resilience: Psychology and Security
	Resilience, Social Imaginaries, and Imagined Communities
	Resilience as a Traveling Concept
	Science/Politics (Knowledge/Power)
	Resilience Enters the Military
	Militarization
	Dominant Themes
	Future Research
	Conclusion
	References
Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience
	Chapter 2: A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology
		Introduction
		The Roots of Resilience
		A Science of Strength and Virtue
		Mass Trauma
		The Rediscovery of Resilience
		Mental Armor
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit
		References
	Chapter 4: Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD
		Introduction
		Post-9/11: The PTSD-Resilience Nexus
		Post-1945: Memory, Narrative and Stress
		Pre-1945: Shock, Management and Efficiency
		New Histories of Resilience
		References
Part II: Contemporary Military Cases
	Chapter 5: ‘The Bullet-Proof Mind’: Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps
		Introduction
		New Concepts
		Crises Within the US Military
		Marine Responses
		Problems with ‘Resilience’ Training in the Mental Health Intervention Programs
		Tensions Between ‘Normal’ and Stigmatized Trauma
		Critique of the ‘Resilience’ and Trauma Models
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6: Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management
		Introduction
		The Co-constitution of the Field of Psychology with Military Behavioral Health
		Defining and Locating Military Resilience
		CSF/CSF2
			Validation of CSF and CSF2
			Measuring Spiritual Fitness
			Additional Concerns About the GAT and Justifications for the Platform
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality
	Chapter 7: Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy
		Introduction
		The Marital and the Martial
		Channelling Positive Emotion: ‘Resilience’ avant la lettre
		‘Strong Bonds’
		Impossible Injuries—Misdiagnosed?
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives
		Introduction
			Theoretical Interlude: Failure, Governmentality, and Ideology Critique
		The Introduction of Resilience into the Military
		Empathetic Critics
		Militarization of Family Relations
		Adaptive Families
		Resilience as a Failed Concept
		References
	Chapter 9: Measuring the American Soldier’s Spiritual Fitness for Warfare: How the US Army Converts Different Forms of Belief into Different Ways of Being, and Why This Matters
		Introduction
		The Global Assessment Tool
		Measuring Spirituality
		How the Army’s Approach to Spirituality Matches a General Ontological Tendency in Cultural Studies
		Why Converting Beliefs into Personal Experience and Identity Is Problematic
		Resilience and the Politics of Subjectivity
		Conclusion
		References
Index