By Force of Arms: Rape, War, and Military Culture

Abstract

See infra notes 6-10 and accompanying text.189, 191 (1993) (finding common characteristics associated with rape proclivity and sexual harassment proclivity).For that reason, the observations made in this Article are in part applicable to sexual harassment by military personnel. SOC'Y4. It is anticipated that the patterns of rape incidence identified in the present study may be shared by the military organizations of many nations and cultures.However, because the empirical study reported in this Article is a case study of the American military only, further empirical work will be required to test the hypothesis that the rape differential described herein is generalizable to other nations and cultures.653 1996]5. Certainly, rape in war is pervasive.Perhaps surprisingly, rape victims in war commonly include not only enemy civilians and troops but also allied and national civilians and even comrades in arms.The tragedy in the former Yugoslavia provides recent examples of rape in war.See