MODELS OF COMMUNICATION IN A MILITARY ENVIRONMENT

Nowadays, tackling the issue of interculturalism has become a primary concern against the background of the increasing globalization tendencies of the contemporary world. From this perspective, we can argue that developing intercultural awareness and communication skills among the citizens of the modern society – military personnel being no exception – is a prerequisite for the success of any type of cooperation, be it individual or at the level of the society, or even between armies. This paper aims at highlighting the particularities of military culture and military communication as manifested in intercultural contexts, by exploring their elements, forms and manners of production and reception. Moreover, the final objective, that of building up on intercultural communication skills, is seen as an educational pursuit in itself and analyzed contrastively form the perspective of the types of courses, targeted skills, and approaches characteristic to training models used by military institutions of higher education in several NATO countries.

The peacekeeping communication system needs to be improved so as to avoid any kind of cross-cultural clashed that may hinder its perfomance

Land Forces Academy Review

The article focuses on the impact of various factors on the process of communication between military specialists and with the local civilians during peace support operations. The importance of religion, national and ethnic identities, military subculture, social status, and personal characteristics for achieving success or failure in interactions is underlined. Some differences between civil culture and military culture are disclosed and the need for cultural knowledge of the military members is stressed. The study is based on presenting and analysing situations of current intercultural interactions in Afghanistan, which deal with various problems that could be encountered by servicemen on a daily basis, i.e. body language differences, expression of friendly, unfriendly or indifferent attitude, typical reactions to gestures, common everyday topics for informal chats. Although the cultural interactions take place in present-day Afghanistan, the conclusions and suggestions are applic...

Wild Blue Yonder, 2022

Failing to examine our own cultural beliefs about language can lead to flawed approaches to international activities. To work with foreign partners more effectively, it is vital to consider the different ways we think about language and use it. Taking time to consider our own language ideologies as well as those of our foreign partners can help us to refine our practices and approaches in simple ways that can yield more positive interactions.

Scientific Bulletin

Currently, the Romanian military students are part of a military organization that is transparent and open to knowledge, innovation and cooperation, where intercultural mediation and interaction with different cultures is fostered. Interculturality brings with it a new matrix of communication, which implies an opening from interpersonal and social communication to intercultural communication. And the military educational environment must have the capacity to develop and refine intercultural communication competence and to overcome the communication barriers that the young soldier encounters. A paradigm shift is needed in which the Self and the other are complementary. The research presents on the basis of literature the concept of intercultural culture and communication as well as the defining elements for communication competence and intercultural communication competence. To achieve the proposed objectives empirical research based on observation and analysis will be conducted. The...

RCIC (Redefining Community in Intercultural Context) Conference , 2020

The concern of the advanced armies related to the development of the cultural and linguistic capabilities that are allowing the soldiers to operate into multicultural context, is active and adapted to the realities of the theatre of operations and of the hybrid warfare. The development of the capabilities is imposing testing, training, education and opportunities to for those to be put into practice. Thus, there have been created evaluation instruments of the cultural abilities, in order to see the progress into the learning, education and cultural harmonization process. Each model is offering a path of socio-cultural knowledge. The new model "The linear knowledge and harmonization model of the cultural interaction" developed in the theatre of operation is helping to determine the cultural differences in the specific multinational military environment and can be used into the education process during both peacetime and wartime.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN THE AIR FORCE, 2022

The importance of the language level knowledge in multinational military organizations is constantly increasing, being considered, by a lot of researchers, the main factor of the interoperability.

This article presents arguments in support of the inclusion of culture-general and cross-cultural competence learning points, as well as cross-cultural communication competence skill development, in language and culture education and training throughout the Department of Defense. It describes a curriculum and assessment model already developed and piloted at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Language & Culture Center and explores the applicability of Moran's Cultural Knowings framework as a potential starting point for programmatic curriculum development. Sample lesson plans using Moran's framework are provided for demonstration purposes. Finally, this article calls for greater collaborative effort and discourse both within and without the Department of Defense for exploring such models and sharing best practices.