Military Review English Edition January-February 2015 | Page 79

NETWORKING AND GENERALSHIP

Australian
New Zealander
American
British

Country
US
UK
NZ
AUS
CAN

Number Individuals
73
13
34
55
8

Canadian

Figure. Network Derived From Interviews Asking Australian and New
Zealand Senior Military Officers Whom They Contact for Advice
New Zealand general officers, so U.S., Canadian, and
British senior military officers were not interviewed.
Therefore, indications of networked connections to
the latter groups only appear if specifically noted by the
Australian and New Zealand general officers interviewed.

reach out to for advice when you have a particularly
tough issue?” This prompt’s objective was to show to
whom general and flag officers talked on important
matters and from what country within the Anglosphere
those individuals came.

Methodology

Quantitative Findings

Personal interviews were conducted to develop a
high-quality data set.11 The majority of the interviews
were accomplished face-to-face. Each participant received
the same scripted prompt, which concluded with the
guidance to provide “the social connections that are useful
to you in a work or professional sense—who might you

Using the interview data, we built a social network
model of general officers and policy makers. Each node
represented a person, and nodes were deemed connected if eith