This article examines the political and social impact of elevating military values in society in a context of austerity. Centering on discussions around two British government “military ethos” initiatives, I consider the idea that military service instills desirable qualities and values in military personnel, making them well suited to educating and socializing children, to the advantage of both children and society. Arguing that these schemes primarily target boys from disadvantaged backgrounds in an effort to turn them into “productive” members of society, I suggest that military ethos initiatives contribute to not only the “raising” of working-class boys but the raising of a class-based army. Moreover, rather than focusing solely on the implications of the military ethos in the British context, I argue that its underlying assumptions about military socialization as a social good have significant geopolitical effects. Through characterizing the military as a core institution of society and its values as moral and good for children, these initiatives obscure the military’s core violent functions. Thus, by both normalizing violence and militarism in everyday life and targeting boys from disadvantaged backgrounds, “military ethos” initiatives engender the subjectivities that provide the very political, social economic, and indeed practical resources that make war possible.

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建军：在紧缩时代军事化工人阶级生活的地缘政治

本文探讨了在紧缩背景下提升军事价值观对社会的政治和社会影响。我围绕围绕两个英国政府“军人精神”倡议的讨论进行讨论，我认为，兵役应向军事人员灌输理想的素质和价值观，使之非常适合教育儿童并使其社会化，从而造福儿童和社会。我认为这些计划主要针对处于不利地位的男孩，以使他们成为社会的“生产性”成员，我认为，军事精神倡议不仅有助于工人阶级男孩的“培养”，而且可以促进工人阶级男孩的“培养”。驻军。而且，不仅仅着眼于英国背景下军事精神的影响，我认为，其关于将军事社会化作为一种​​社会物品的基本假设具有重大的地缘政治影响。这些举措通过将军队定为社会的核心机构并赋予其道德和对儿童有益的价值观，掩盖了军队的核心暴力职能。因此，通过使日常生活中的暴力和军国主义正常化并针对处境不利的男孩，“军事风气”倡议带来了主观性，这些主观性提供了使战争成为可能的非常政治，社会经济和实际资源。