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112374
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This article reviews debates surrounding the Military Covenant and explores its salience for contemporary British civil-military relations. It explores why the concept of the Military Covenant was created, the nature of subsequent debates, and finally it reflects on the wider implications of this research. Locating the Covenant in debates concerned with the changing nature of the military profession, this article argues that the Covenant was created in 2000 as a response to a challenge to the Army's right to be different and thus its jurisdiction. However, tensions caused by new missions in Iraq and Afghanistan subsequently transformed the Covenant's use and meaning. Senior commanders extended the use of the Covenant to establish the boundaries of their expertise and legitimacy, whilst external actors with a variety of competing interests used the Covenant to contest "authoritative discretion" of the military within a clearly delineated professional space.
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The military covenant is a set of morally binding expectations marking the exchange between military, society, and the state. Its base is the military’s duality: like other large public institutions delivering services and its uniqueness in holding the monopoly over the use of legitimate organized state violence. The covenant is a form of relational (not transactional) contract based on trust between, and a long-term orientation of, partners; it both orders and displays these relations thereby offering both prescriptions for action and discursive means to legitimate them. The covenant can be used as an analytical (not normative) concept for theoretical development in three areas: social change and society-military ties, processual aspects of agreements between individuals and groups and the armed forces, and links between society-military ties and the social contract and social cohesion. We use the case of Estonia to illustrate the theoretical potential of the military covenant.
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146322
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The military covenant is often regarded as a recent tradition. In this article, Mark Rynehart explains how ancient military covenants emerged in Britain during the late Roman period, and were reinforced by versions imported from southern Europe and Saxon immigrants in the early medieval era. His analysis shows that ancient military covenants continue to influence modern military doctrine and social policy.
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118238
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2012.
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This article assesses how veteran care can be placed at the centre of our understanding of the modern Military Covenant and located as a key issue in contemporary civil-military relations and public policy. Healthcare and welfare provision have become primary manifestations of how the British state fulfils its duty of care towards military personnel. The article aims to present an overview of current provision for veterans of Britain's modern wars and draw conclusions regarding the state's ability to provide short and long-term healthcare and welfare requirements to veterans as part of the Covenant under the rubric of 'Big Society'-inspired policy shifts engendered by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
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