Risks and Fallacies of Expanding New Roles to the Military: The Case of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit; A Research Note.
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This article responds to the analysis about the Spanish Emergency Military Unit in the research note by Pérez et al. in Armed Forces & Society, which emphasizes the efficiency of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit and how it has enhanced the image of the Spanish Armed Forces. We believe that a more critical understanding of the development of this military unit is necessary, as its deployment pitfalls and the literature on civil-military relations were neglected. Consequently, four policy traps are identified: response to civilian emergencies has become a central task of the armed forces rather than an auxiliary role; behind the pragmatism of its employment, there is potential for a worsening of civil-military relations, as highlighted by the scholarly literature; there are serious inefficiencies in its organizational design, related to human and financial resources; and image improvement is an illusion, strongly conditioned by political cleavages, with potential long-term counterproductive results.
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Risks and Fallacies of Expanding New Roles to the Military: The Case of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit; A Research Note.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bueno, Alberto ; Martínez, Rafael, 1965- |
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Zeitschrift: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: Armed Forces & Society, 2023, 2023, S. 1-9 |
Veröffentlichung: | SAGE Publications, 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0095-327X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1177/0095327X231164594 |
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