This article focuses on the observation of a Danish Sergeant in a peace operation and his struggle with two central factors of military behavior, esprit de corps and social cohesion. Based on a field study, several observations from different situations where the Sergeant is facing either esprit de corps or social cohesion are presented and analyzed. The observations show that, both, esprit de corps and social cohesion are central factors in this specific peace operation, as in war operations.

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... bservations also show that due to leadership based on routinized tacit face-to-face and role-ta- king processes the Danish Sergeant has difficulties with his combat group. Other ob- servations show that esprit de corps in this specific peace operation is more in focus and part of the soldiers' interpretation of operations positions them differently in the informal hierarchy. The production of different interpretations causes conflicts in the Danish combat group, which the Sergeant has difficulties handling. Članek se osredotoča na opažanja danskega vodnika in njegov boj z dvema osrednji- ma dejavnikoma vojaškega vedenja - občutkom pripadnosti in socialno kohezijo v mirovni operaciji. Na podlagi terenske študije je predstavljeno in analizirano večje število opažanj iz različnih situacij, v katerih se je vodnik srečal z občutkom pripa- dnosti ali socialno kohezijo. Opazovanja so pokazala, da sta občutek pripadnosti in socialna kohezija osrednja dejavnika tako v tej konkretni operaciji kot v vojnih ope- racijah. Opazovanja so pokazala tudi, da je zaradi utečenih samodejnih procesov, ki zahtevajo osebni stik in prevzemanje vlog, danski vodnik imel težave s svojo bojno skupino. Druga opazovanja kažejo, da je občutek pripadnosti v tej konkretni mirovni operaciji bolj v žarišču in da del vojakov zaradi svojih interpretacij delovanja v ne- formalni hierarhiji zavzema drugačno mesto. Različne interpretacije povzročajo konflikte v danski bojni skupini in vodnik jih težko obvladuje.