abstract:Military sociology aims toward the systematic study of the military as a social group rather than as an organization. It is a highly specialized subfield which examines issues related to service personnel as a distinct group with coerced collective action based on shared interests linked to survival in vocation and combat, with purposes and values that are more defined and narrow than within civil society.
In a working paper that I have written for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, I draw from the history of technology, military history, and disaster sociology to address this issue of cyber-doom scenarios.