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167151
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The article examines whether or not senior managers in public administration who belong to the Religious-Zionist community operate as effective Policy Injection Agents – adopting the ‘Influence from within’ ethos that makes them a part of a policy community – or whether they perceive this discourse in another way. Thirty-five interviews with senior public administrators pertaining to the Religious-Zionist community were analysed based on the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. A number of central themes were identified, the vast majority of which point to the ‘Influence from within’ ethos not becoming a component in the managerial identity of the interviewees and their colleagues. While it served them within their community as legitimation for attending general society to study, live and work outside the base of Religious-Zionism, from the moment they integrated in the public system – their concern became the exact opposite of the ethos: not to be perceived by their secular colleagues as part of a sector but as professional individuals who are exclusively committed to the professional ethos of their managerial community.
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160947
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In the post-heroic era, features of warfare have dramatically changed in Western armies, but what about the future? This study focuses on the perceptions of commanders and experts from Israel versus those of commanders and experts from three Western countries (UK, Sweden and the US) regarding the challenges those armies will face in the future battlefield, at both the macro and micro level. This examination can lay a foundation for understanding the differences in the perceptions of the challenges that Israel and other countries are facing and to identify the major issues that must be considered in the discussion about the future battlefield. Most of the respondents found it difficult to anticipate the future. However, the Israeli narrative of the future was different from the narratives in the other countries. Qualitative analysis has exposed four factors of future battlefield perceptions: the characteristics of conflicts, macro-social factors, information and technology, and unit and command. In the Israeli context, complexity was perceived as a difficulty and even as a threat.
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