[PDF] Reconsidering American Civil Military Relations eBook

Author : Lionel Beehner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 0197535496

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This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was either written during or references the Cold War, while other major research focuses on the post-Cold War era, or the first decade of the twenty-first century. A great deal has changed since then. This book considers the implications for civil-military relations of many of these changes. Specifically, it focuses on factors such as breakdowns in democratic and civil-military norms and conventions; intensifying partisanship and deepening political divisions in American society; as well as new technology and the evolving character of armed conflict. Chapters are organized around the principal actors in civil-military relations, and the book includes sections on the military, civilian leadership, and the public. It explores the roles and obligations of each. The book also examines how changes in contemporary armed conflict influence civil-military relations. Chapters in this section examine the cyber domain, grey zone operations, asymmetric warfare and emerging technology. The book thus brings the study of civil-military relations into the contemporary era, in which new geopolitical realities and the changing character of armed conflict combine with domestic political tensions to test, if not potentially redefine, those relations.

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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2004
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In American academe today the dominant view of civil-military relations is sternly critical of the military, asserting that civilian control of the military is dangerously eroded. Though tension clearly exists in the relationship, the current critique is largely inaccurate and badly overwrought. Far from overstepping its bounds, America's military operates comfortably within constitutional notions of separated powers, participating appropriately in defense and national security policymaking with due deference to the principle of civilian control. Indeed, an active and vigorous role by the military in the policy process is and always has been essential to the common defense. A natural starting point for any inquiry into the state of civil-military relations in the US today is to define what is meant by the terms civil-military relations and civilian control. Broadly defined, civil-military relations refers to the relationship between the armed forces of the state and the larger society they serve how they communicate, how they interact, and how the interface between them is ordered and regulated. Similarly, civilian control means simply the degree to which the military's civilian masters can enforce their authority on the military services. Clarifying the vocabulary of civil-military relations sheds an interesting light on the current, highly charged debate. The dominant academic critique takes several forms, charging that the military has become increasingly estranged from the society it serves; that it has abandoned political neutrality for partisan politics; and that it plays an increasingly dominant and illegitimate role in policymaking. This view contrasts the ideal of the nonpartisan, apolitical soldier with a different reality. In this construct, the military operates freely in a charged political environment to impose its own perspective in defiance of the principle of civilian control.

Author : Peter D. Feaver
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2011-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400841453

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America's debate over whether and how to invade Iraq clustered into civilian versus military camps. Top military officials appeared reluctant to use force, the most hawkish voices in government were civilians who had not served in uniform, and everyone was worried that the American public would not tolerate casualties in war. This book shows that this civilian-military argument--which has characterized earlier debates over Bosnia, Somalia, and Kosovo--is typical, not exceptional. Indeed, the underlying pattern has shaped U.S. foreign policy at least since 1816. The new afterword by Peter Feaver and Christopher Gelpi traces these themes through the first two years of the current Iraq war, showing how civil-military debates and concerns about sensitivity to casualties continue to shape American foreign policy in profound ways.

Author : Suzanne C. Nielsen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0801892872

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politics, and national security policy.--John R. Ballard "On Point"

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1317165373

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The topic of civil-military relations has high significance for academics, for policy makers, for military commanders, and for serious students of public policy in democratic and other societies. The post-Cold War and post-9-11 worlds have thrown up traditional as well as new challenges to the effective management of armed forces and defense establishments. Further, the present century has seen a rising arc in the use of armed violence on the part of non-state actors, including terrorists, to considerable political effect. Civil-military relations in the United States, and their implications for US and allied security policies, is the focus of most discussions in this volume, but other contributions emphasize the comparative and cross-national dimensions of the relationship between the use or threat of force and public policy. Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations; the role perceptions of military professionals across generations; the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-challenged political systems; the usefulness of business models in military management; the attributes of civil-military relations during unconventional conflicts; the experience of the all-volunteer force and its meaning for US civil-military relations; and other topics. Contributors include civilian academic and policy analysts as well as military officers with considerable academic expertise and experience with the subject matter at hand.

Author : Thomas C. Bruneau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0415782732

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The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations not only fills this important lacuna, but offers an up-to-date comparative analysis which identifies three essential components in civil-military relations: (1) democratic civilian control; (2) operational effectiveness; and (3) the efficiency of the security institutions. This Handbook will be essential reading for students and practitioners in the fields of civil-military relations.