Open AccessFROM THE EDITORS
Author(s) -
Abel Esterhuyse,
Ian Liebenberg
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/39-1-98
Subject(s) - legitimacy , politics , military theory , strategic studies , political science , military science , intervention (counseling) , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , national security , sociology , engineering ethics , law , psychology , engineering , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics
Craig A. Snyder, in a book titled Contemporary Security and Strategy, noted that the broad idea of security provides strategic studies with institutional status and political legitimacy. Yet, the military core endows strategic studies, as a scholarly discipline, with intellectual coherence.1 This edition of Scientia Militaria, the South African Journal of Military Studies, reflects this reality with a very broad range of articles – from sexual behaviour and poetry to military intervention. Yet, the underlying commonality is an emphasis on military issues