Short-term assignments as a means of managerial control is confirmed in our study, where the military personnel are required to provide feedback updates to their commanding officers on a regular basis. With regards to short-term international assignments being less well compensated that longer term assignments, publications to date in this space speak to short-term assignments of multinational private-sector organizations rather than to the specific group with which this paper is concerned: military personnel. In the military context, deployed personnel on STIAs are very well compensated (and earn a tax-free premium).