Discusses the body of work that appears in this issue that taken together encompasses a wide scope, both substantively and methodologically. The author begins with a discussion of the conceptual and measurement issues within military commitment research. In this section building on theory is addressed. Description follows focusing on the Organizational Commitment Construct in terms of dimensionality and measurement. This is followed by a discussion of the correlates of commitment where consequences and antecedents are explored including career intentions and the impacts on commitment. After a discussion of the foci of commitment that concentrates on the objects of commitment, the paper examines the military as a research source. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)