Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of 16 books and over 120 academic articles. Her books include An Intimate History of Killing, What It Means to be Human, and Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence. Robin May Schott is a philosopher and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in the unit on Peace and Violence. She is the author or editor of 10 books and over 60 academic articles. Her books include Discovering Feminist Philosophy and Cognition and Eros.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience.- 2. A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology.- 3. Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit.- 4. Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD.- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases.- 5. ‘The Bullet-Proof Mind’: Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps.- 6. Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management.- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality.- 7. Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy.- 8. Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives.- 9. Measuring the American Soldier’s Spiritual Fitness for Warfare: How the US Army Converts Different Forms of Belief into Different Ways of Being, and Why This Matters.

Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of 16 books and over 120 academic articles. Her books include An Intimate History of Killing, What It Means to be Human, and Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence. Robin May Schott is a philosopher and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in the unit on Peace and Violence. She is the author or editor of 10 books and over 60 academic articles. Her books include Discovering Feminist Philosophy and Cognition and Eros.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience.- 2. A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology.- 3. Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit.- 4. Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD.- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases.- 5. ‘The Bullet-Proof Mind’: Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps.- 6. Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management.- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality.- 7. Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy.- 8. Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives.- 9. Measuring the American Soldier’s Spiritual Fitness for Warfare: How the US Army Converts Different Forms of Belief into Different Ways of Being, and Why This Matters.

Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of 16 books and over 120 academic articles. Her books include An Intimate History of Killing, What It Means to be Human, and Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence. Robin May Schott is a philosopher and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in the unit on Peace and Violence. She is the author or editor of 10 books and over 60 academic articles. Her books include Discovering Feminist Philosophy and Cognition and Eros.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience.- 2. A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology.- 3. Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit.- 4. Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD.- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases.- 5. ‘The Bullet-Proof Mind’: Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps.- 6. Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management.- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality.- 7. Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy.- 8. Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives.- 9. Measuring the American Soldier’s Spiritual Fitness for Warfare: How the US Army Converts Different Forms of Belief into Different Ways of Being, and Why This Matters.