Warriors or Peacekeepers?: Building Military Cultural Competence

Introduction: Culture and the military; K. Enstad, P. Holmes Eber.- Part I: The value of developing cultural competence in military leaders.- Cultural intelligence as part of an officer's virtue.- D. Parenteau.- Civilians under attack: diverging threat perspectives; S. Vorland Holen.- The errors Clausewitz made about culture in war (and how a Clausewitzian approach can solve them); Y. Cormier.- Part II: Lessons learned in teaching cultural skills in military contexts.- Understanding cultural differences: The limitations of ASCOPE/PMESII; K. Enstad.- Unlearning "Stranger Danger": Developing cultural competence in Canadian military professionals through collective learning and self-reflection; V. Brown, A.Okros.- Culture as operational enabler: Training Danish officers to understand the interaction between cultural dynamics and military operations; R. Haugegaard.- Combining the teaching of intelligence, Arabic, and culture at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School; S.B. Dahele, I.M. Mostulieu.- Intercultural competencies in the Bundeswehr: Officer training and mission realities; M. Tomforde.- Teaching gender, teaching culture: A comparative study of gendered dilemmas in culturally complex situations; L. Masson, R. Moelker.- Part III - Organizational change: When military culture meets cultural competence.- Anthropology in the bunker: Teaching transcultural war at the US Naval War College; M. McFate.-Redefining the past to become the present: Culture policy and U.S. Marine Corps recruit training; P. Holmes-Eber.- Teaching Cultural Competence: Lessons from seven countries; P. Holmes-Eber, K. Enstad.