Psychology Of Military Humour

This book is the most comprehensive work on the subject and perhaps the only one that focuses on military humour. Everyone enjoys humour, and military humour has a particular appeal because it is created in an environment that offers the maximum opportunity for its exploitation. It will also make the general reader closely familiar with the military milieu and the working of the military mind.

The student of psychology should find this book useful because it presents the difficult subject of humour in general, in a comprehensive and readable form.

However, this book should prove most useful to the Service officer. For him the pleasure of the humour will be enhanced because he is familiar with the military environment. It will also give him a new dimension in the exercise of military command by the use of humour to mitigate the stresses and strains of peace and war. In handling his men he will go beyond merely applying the yardstick of the code of military law.

1. The nature of humour

2. The psychology of humour

3. The physiology of humour

4. The expression of humour

5. The influence of humour

6. Humour in the military environment

7. Humour among allies

8. Humour in the Air Force

9. Humour in the Navy

10. Humour in combat

11. Humour in military command

12. Humour and morale

13. National characteristics in military humour

14. Humorous military characters

Appendix Theories on humour

Index