Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Christopher Dandeker -- Introduction / Steven Carlton-Ford and Morten G. Ender --
Part I. War on the ground : combat and its aftermath. Fighting two protracted wars : recruiting and retention with an all-volunteer force / Susan M. Ross -- Fighting the irregular war in Afghanistan : success in combat; struggles in stabilization / Brigid Myers Pavilonis -- Learning the lessons of counterinsurgency / Ian Roxborough -- Twenty-first century narratives from Afghanistan : storytelling, morality, and war / Ryan D. Pengelly and Anne Irwin -- Two US combat units in Iraq : psychological contracts when expectations and realities diverge / Wilbur J. Scott, David R. McCone and George R. Mastroianni -- Capture of Saddam Hussein : social network analysis and counterinsurgency operations / Brian J. Reed and David R. Segal -- Apples, barrels, and Abu Ghraib / George R. Mastroianni and George E. Reed -- The war on terror in the early twenty-first century : applying lessons from sociological classics and sites of abuse / Ryan Ashley Caldwell and Stjepan G. Mestrovic --
Part II. War on the ground : non-combat operations, non-combatants, and operators. Policing post-war Iraq : insurgency, civilian police, and the reconstruction of society / Mathieu Deflem and Suzanne Sutphin -- Policing Afghanistan : civilian police reform and the resurgence of the Taliban / Mathieu Deflem -- Manging humanitarian information in Iraq / Aldo Benini [and others] -- Role of contractors and other non-military personnel in today's wars / O. Shawn Cupp and William C. Latham, Jr. -- Evaluating psychological operations in Operation Enduring Freedom / James E. Griffith -- Armed conflict and health : cholera in Iraq / Daniel Poole -- Iraqi adolescents : self-regard, self-derogation, and perceived threat in war / Steve Carlton-Ford, Morten G. Ender and Ahoo Tabatabai --
Part III. The war back home : the social construction of war, its heroes, and its enemies. Globalization and the invasion of Iraq : state power and the enforcement of neoliberalization / Daniel Egan -- The Pakistan and Afghan crisis / Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Mass media as risk-management in the "War on Terror" / Christopher M. Pieper -- Talking war : how elite US newspaper editorials and opinion pieces debated the attack on Iraq / Alexander G. Nikolaev and Douglas V. Porpora -- Debating anti-war protests : the microlevel discourse of social movement framing on a university listserv / Mark Hedley and Sara A. Clark -- Making heroes : an attributional perspective / Gregory C. Gibson [and others] -- Making the Muslim enemy : the social construction of the enemy in the war on terror / Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills --
Part IV. The war back home : families and young people on the home front. Greedy media : Army families, embedded reporting, and war in Iraq / Morten G. Ender [and others] -- Military child well-being in the face of multiple deployments / Rachel Lipari [and others] -- American undergraduate attitudes toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan : trends and variations / Morten G. Ender, David E. Rohall and Michael D. Matthews.