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Combat Motivation in Today’s Soldiers

U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute

Leonard Wong

U.S. Army War College Leonard.Wong{at}carlisle.army.mil

The MacCoun, Kier, and Belkin critique of Why They Fight: Combat Motivation in the Iraq War is based on the incorrect assumption that the outcome variable of the study is combat performance. Why They Fight seeks to investigate combat motivation—not battlefield performance. Why They Fight examines why soldiers continue in battle despite obvious risk to personal safety. Referencing a well-established body of literature and using a methodology appropriate for analyzing combat motivation, Why They Fight concludes that today’s soldiers, just as those in the past, fight for each other. Why They Fight also reports, however, that today’s soldiers are motivated in combat by notions of freedom and democracy

Key Words: cohesion • ideology • combat motivation

Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 32, No. 4, 659-663 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X06287884
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