The Self-Concept Features of Officers of the Russian Federation Armed Forces

The article is devoted to the problem of the peculiarities of the Self-concept of officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The concept of "self-concept of personality", as well as the peculiarities of the personality of military personnel are considered. The article presents a study aimed at identifying the features of the Self-concept of officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. To achieve this goal, some methods were used designed to identify the features of the self-concept, to identify the features of self-attitude, self-esteem, self-esteem of the individual. An empirical study of the features of the Self-concept of officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was conducted, and the features of the Self-concept of the personality of junior and senior officers were revealed. The analysis of the results of the study showed that the majority of the subjects of the senior officer group are characterized by a high level of self-esteem, which indicates that such officers respect themselves as a person, an individual, as a professional and continue to develop, improve in the profession, spiritually and intellectually, in the field of relationships, learn lessons from mistakes and difficult situations; positive self-attitude; high adequate self-esteem, in which people recognize adequately their dignity, they are characterized by self-confidence, determination, firmness, the ability to find and make logical decisions, implement them consistently. Most of the subjects of the junior officer group are characterized by an average level of self-esteem, which suggests that such officers tend to balance between self-esteem and self-humiliation; positive self-attitude, average adequate self-esteem.

A selection from the war diaries of Dan Davin

<p>This thesis is an edited selection from Dan Davin's wartime diaries, running from 1940-1941 and covering training in England, travel through Egypt, and fighting in Greece and Crete. The selection is a scholarly edition combining the two extant versions of the diaries (Davin's original manuscript and a typescript copy he made some years later) with heavy annotation. The diaries themselves are examined in two ways; as a historical record, showing the lives of many New Zealand soldiers; and as an attempt to explore how the inchoate material of the diaries is transformed into Davin's later fiction. The first draws particular interest from Davin's perspective as both a junior officer, with an account of events from below, and a self-conscious outsider who after escaping provincial New Zealand feels he has returned to its traveling manifestation. He observes with a sense of detachment from his counterparts and from responsibility for events outside his own sphere of command. This gives new insight into what has become part of national mythology.</p>

A selection from the war diaries of Dan Davin

<p>This thesis is an edited selection from Dan Davin's wartime diaries, running from 1940-1941 and covering training in England, travel through Egypt, and fighting in Greece and Crete. The selection is a scholarly edition combining the two extant versions of the diaries (Davin's original manuscript and a typescript copy he made some years later) with heavy annotation. The diaries themselves are examined in two ways; as a historical record, showing the lives of many New Zealand soldiers; and as an attempt to explore how the inchoate material of the diaries is transformed into Davin's later fiction. The first draws particular interest from Davin's perspective as both a junior officer, with an account of events from below, and a self-conscious outsider who after escaping provincial New Zealand feels he has returned to its traveling manifestation. He observes with a sense of detachment from his counterparts and from responsibility for events outside his own sphere of command. This gives new insight into what has become part of national mythology.</p>

Ceremonial portraits of Prince Peter Lvovich Wittgenstein in the context of his iconography

The article is devoted to the study of three ceremonial portraits of Prince Peter Lvovich Wittgenstein, a general of the Russian army and the richest landowner in Belarus in the 19th century. Most of ceremonial portraits of 19th century military men were perished in the whirlwind of wars and revolutions of the 20th century. Finding each such work, even outside our country, is of great interest.The prince’s maternal ancestors were representatives of the most famous aristocratic family in the history of Belarus. His father was the son of a Russian field marshal, hero of the war with Napoleon. Prince Peter did not leave children, all of his portraits are now outside Belarus about the descendants of his sister and brother.The paintings were revealed by the author himself, have not been studied before.The earliest portrait dates from the 1850s. and represents the prince in the uniform of a junior officer of the Horse Guards Regiment. The author’s name is not known, there is a copy of J. N. Bernhardt. The next portrait was painted by an unknown artist around 1864. The latest portrait represents a prince in a general’s uniform, completed by the Austrian artist Z. L’Alleman in 1888 after the death of his hero. Two copies of this portrait are also kept in private collections of his descendants.The article presents descriptions of portraits and their copies, analysis of the history of creation and existence in the context of the prince’s biography and his iconography, through the prism of the Russian and European tradition of writing ceremonial portraits of government officials.

The Cromwellian Army’s Political Role During the Interregnum

From 1649 to 1660 the Cromwellian army, which grew out of the New Model Army, was the dominant political institution in the country and the foundation for each successive government. It forced through the regicide, purged parliaments, dissolved them, restored them, summoned new legislative bodies, produced a written constitution, and briefly flirted with direct military rule under the major-generals. The army elevated Oliver Cromwell, its Lord General, to the position of Lord Protector, and then turned against his son, Richard, and demolished the Protectorate. In 1660 part of the army engineered the restoration of the monarchy. There is no other period in English history, either before or since the interregnum, when a standing army exercised so much power and influence on the politics and government of the country. Its adoption of a political role was initially defensive in terms of securing its due after the civil war in terms of pay and arrears. In the face of parliamentary hostility, that focus on material issues broadened to incorporate a defense of the army’s right to petition and defend its honor and then widened further with its conviction that, as the embodiment of the godly cause, it had a right and a duty to be involved in the settlement of the nation. But the army never felt comfortable with the messy business of politics, and it spent the 1650s trying to find a parliament with which it could coexist. The character of the army inevitably changed during the 11 years of the English republic. Death, wounds, retirement, and political differences removed many senior officers, as well as reshaping much of the junior officer corps and the rank and file. The physical dispersion of the regiments after the conquests of Ireland and Scotland led to substantially different means of political engagement and intervention compared to the years 1647 and 1648, when much of the army was quartered close together within striking distance of London. But alongside these developments there were some fundamental features of the army that remained constant: it continued to be a heterogenous institution that accommodated a wide range of political and religious beliefs among its officer corps; its veneration of Oliver Cromwell never wavered, albeit with some exceptions during the Protectorate, and, in turn, he tolerated its diversity while ruling the army with tight control; and the clarion cry of army unity as the bulwark against “the common enemy” (the Royalists) endured as a potent emotion, even for those who opposed Cromwell’s Protectorate. In 1659 and 1660, after Cromwell’s death, the restored Rump Parliament, the assembly that the army had dissolved in 1653, twice purged the army’s officer corps as it imposed tests of political correctness and fealty on an institution that it deeply distrusted. The purges wrecked army unity and left the army in England incapable of resisting General George Monck when he brought about the restoration of the monarchy.

Family, Class, Honor, Manhood: Lieutenant Edmond de Lotbinière Joly in India, Paris, and Crimea, 1850–1857

During the relatively short period when he was a junior officer in the British colonial army, Edmond Joly served in the recently annexed Punjab, at the siege of Sebastopol, and in the effort to rescue his regiment in Lucknow where he was mortally wounded at the age of twenty-four. Earlier that same year, the young Canadian had spent four months in Paris immersed in the social whirl of the aristocratic elite. Beyond describing those eventful years in intimate detail, Joly’s hitherto-unexamined personal letters, memoir, and journal reveal that his chief motivation in becoming a soldier and repeatedly risking his life after a rebellious youth was to gain the respect of his demanding father. The themes of emerging manhood and family honor are therefore central to this article, which also provides an intimate example of the clash between traditional aristocratic values and those of the rising middle class in the modernizing Victorian era.

Social Identity Theory Guides Junior Leader to Excellence

Junior Medical Corps officers are often thrust directly into leadership roles following training. Although their clinical skills may be finely tuned, they often face a steep learning curve related to leadership responsibilities. This scenario highlights a junior officer making a policy change and how Social Identity Theory relates to leadership.

Communicating With Leadership: Behavioral Health and HIPAA in the Field

It can be challenging for a general medical officer to determine a patient’s fitness for duty in the field. Communicating with commanding officers can be difficult given a general medical officer’s loyalties as both a physician and medical officer. We present a case of a junior officer that highlights these issues.

The Unknown Battle of Khalkhyn Gol: the Gunners Feat

The article is dedicated to an episode of the Khalkhyn Gol battle that may seem insignificant at first glance. Still this episode reveals some relevant details of those events and namely, the circumstances of the battle against Japanese units in which the armor-piercing cannon crew led by lieutenant commander A. Migutin took part. Such details are normally omitted when studying historical events of different periods to present these events at a large scale. However, in our opinion, such details are relevant for research because they reflect some nonprogrammed aspects of battles against the enemy which eventually led to victory. Soviet and Japanese documents not only help reveal some bare facts, but also emotional perception of the events by the parties. Japanese officers considered the incident significant and recorded it comprehensively in their documents. Besides, Japanese documents contain comparison of Russian soldiers with Japanese ones which is the best praise a Japanese commander can give. Japanese officers were certainly impressed by Soviet gunners’ resilience and by courage of the captured junior officer. At the same time one should pay attention to the fact that the crew led by the commander not only showed extraordinary heroism and courage but also unjustifiable negligence not having taken appropriate measures of surveillance. The combination of the above mentioned facts should be taken into account when reconstructing the Khalkhyn Gol battle.

Images of the «enemy» by the eyes of prisoners of war from the time of the First World War (according to the memoirs of Yu. I. Kirsch and E. E. Dwinger)

The article analyzes the memories of Y. I. Kirsch, a Russian soldier who got into German captivity, and E. E. Dwinger, a German junior officer who was captured by Russians. The author raises the question of common and distinctive features in the images of the “enemy” created in the memoirs of these memoirists. Transformation in the perception of a military enemy in the experience of captivity is being considered. The issue of reconciliation and finding an understanding with the “enemy” was studied. The author comes to the conclusion that at the time of capturing both Russian and German soldiers had extremely negative images of the “enemy”. These images were constructed by state propaganda, which dehumanized a military enemy. The prisoners of war expected extreme cruelties from the “enemy”, but these expectations were not approved. Extreme experience of captivity focused on the negative aspects of life in Germany and the Russian Empire. This was reflected in the memoirs of Y. I. Kirch and E. E. Dwinger. But both memoirists noted that the “enemy” in the crowd behaved ruthlessly, while on a personal level, he was often ready to help prisoners of war, to show mercy. Despite the negative attitude to the “enemy”, both in Russia and in Germany, there was a cohabitation of prisoners of war with local women. In Germany, ordinary Germans congratulated prisoners of war on its’ end. In Russia with the beginning of the revolution, German prisoners of war received an invitation to join the White Movement. These facts are manifestations of partial reconciliation of prisoners of war with the “enemy”. With regard to the difference in the design of the enemy's image, German memoirs show more cultural reflections on the national character and the mission of the Russians. Memoirs of the Russian on the contrary emphasize the way of life and order that prevailed in the camp for the prisoners of war. The study of the experience of transforming the enemy's image during the First World War is relevant in the context of a modern information confrontation, which inevitably complements military conflicts.