Resilience: Militaries and Militarization

Abstract

1. Introduction -- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience -- 2. A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology -- 3. Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit -- 4. Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD -- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases -- 5. 'The Bullet-Proof Mind': Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps -- 6. Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management -- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality -- 7. Toughened Love: The US Military, 'Resilience' and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy -- 8. Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives -- 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.