A More Perfect Military

Author : Diane H. Mazur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199780471

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A More Perfect Military by Diane H. Mazur Pdf

Surveys show that the all-volunteer military is our most respected and trusted institution, but over the last thirty-five years it has grown estranged from civilian society. Without a draft, imperfect as it was, the military is no longer as representative of civilian society. Fewer people accept the obligation for military service, and a larger number lack the knowledge to be engaged participants in civilian control of the military. The end of the draft, however, is not the most important reason we have a significant civil-military gap today. A More Perfect Military explains how the Supreme Court used the cultural division of the Vietnam era to change the nature of our civil-military relations. The Supreme Court describes itself as a strong supporter of the military and its distinctive culture, but in the all-volunteer era, its decisions have consistently undermined the military's traditional relationship to law and the Constitution. Most people would never suspect there was anything wrong, but our civil-military relations are now as constitutionally fragile as they have ever been. A More Perfect Military is a bracingly candid assessment of the military's constitutional health. It crosses ideological and political boundaries and is challenging-even unsettling-to both liberal and conservative views. It is written for those who believe the military may be slipping away from our common national experience. This book is the blueprint for a new national conversation about military service.

Author : Mark R. Shulman,U. S. Army War College,Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 1304074765

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Lead Me, Follow Me, Or Get Out of My Way by Mark R. Shulman,U. S. Army War College,Strategic Studies Institute Pdf

This monograph explains why robust civil-military relations matter and discusses how they are evolving. Part I discusses A More Perfect Military: How the Constitution Can Make Our Military Stronger by Diane Mazur, a book that examines the jurisprudence that has reshaped civil-military relations. Mazur maintains that since the Vietnam era, the U.S. Supreme Court has hewn the armed forces from general society in order to create a separate-and more socially conservative-sphere. Part II discusses The Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman, a wise and wide-ranging book which argues that the nation's polity is in decline and that the increasingly politicized armed forces may force a change in government. Part III asks where we go from here. The important books attribute a thinning of civilian control over the military to specific legal and political decisions. They explain some of the most important implications of this transformation.

Author : Dale R. Herspring
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421409290

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Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility by Dale R. Herspring Pdf

A provocative approach to evaluating civil-military relations. Dale R. Herspring considers the factors that allow some civilian and military organizations to operate more productively in a political context than others, bringing into comparative study for the first time the military organizations of the U.S., Russia, Germany, and Canada. Refuting the work of scholars such as Samuel P. Huntington and Michael C. Desch, Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility approaches civil-military relations from a new angle, military culture, arguing that the optimal form of civil-military relations is one of shared responsibility between the two groups. Herspring outlines eight factors that contribute to conditions that promote and support shared responsibility among civilian officials and the military, including such prerequisites as civilian leaders not interfering in the military's promotion process and civilian respect for military symbols and traditions. He uses these indicators in his comparative treatment of the U.S., Russian, German, and Canadian militaries. Civilian authorities are always in charge and the decision on how to treat the military is a civilian decision. However, Herspring argues, failure by civilians to respect military culture will antagonize senior military officials, who will feel less free to express their views, thus depriving senior civilian officials, most of whom have no military experience, of the expert advice of those most capable of assessing the far-reaching forms of violence. This issue of civilian respect for military culture and operations plays out in Herspring's country case studies. Scholars of civil-military relations will find much to debate in Herspring's framework, while students of civil-military and defense policy will appreciate Herspring's brief historical tour of each countries' post–World War II political and policy landscapes.

Author : U.s. Army War College
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1503003183

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Lead Me, Follow Me, Or Get Out of My Way by U.s. Army War College Pdf

This book explains why robust civil-military relations matter and discusses how they are evolving. Without meaningful and reliable civilian control of the military, governments lose some measure of control over the destiny of their nations. In extreme circumstances, a lack of civilian control can even lead to a coup d'état. Part I discusses A More Perfect Military: How the Constitution Can Make Our Military Stronger by Diane Mazur, a book that examines the jurisprudence that has reshaped civil-military relations. Mazur maintains that since the Vietnam era, the U.S. Supreme Court has in effect distanced the Armed Forces from general society in order to create a separate—and more socially conservative—sphere.Part II discusses The Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman, a wise and wide-ranging book that argues that the nation's polity is in decline and that the increasingly politicized armed forces may force a change in government. Part III asks where we go from here. These important books attribute a thinning of civilian control over the military to specific legal and political decisions. They explain some of the most important implications of this transformation, and they offer proposals about how to improve that critical relationship for the sake of enhancing the effectiveness of the armed forces and the vitality of the republic. This book goes on to examine briefly evolving great-power politics, the effects new technologies have on long-standing distinctions and borders, and the relative rise of nonstate actors, including al Qaeda—three sets of exogenous factors that inevitably drive changes in the civil-military relationship. In the end, this book points to a more ambitious enterprise: a complete re-examination of the relationship between force and society.

Author : Parragon,Parragon Books Ltd
Publisher : Parragon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Military machines
ISBN : 1472374606

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Military Machines by Parragon,Parragon Books Ltd Pdf

From Egyptian war chariots to modern fighter jets, from land to air to sea, Military Machines explores the history and technology of combat vehicles. It dissects over 60 incredible battle-ready machines from throughout history, with 3-D cutaway illustrations.

Author : Richard D. Mohr
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807079332

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A More Perfect Union by Richard D. Mohr Pdf

A More Perfect Union is the first book to offer a concise moral case for gay people's equal citizenship. Appealing to widely held American beliefs, Mohr grounds his argument for gay justice firmly in our most valued traditions of equality and freedom. Mohr explores gay rights from the most private to the most public: Should sex be protected by the right to privacy? What does marriage mean in today's society - and is there a case for legalizing marriage between same-sex couples?

Author : Rosa Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476777863

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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks Pdf

Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions-- but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. It is rather symbolic of the way that the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems. Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war, and provides a rallying cry for action as we undermine the values and rules that keep our world from sliding toward chaos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Armies
ISBN : UCAL:$B631303

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Marxism-Leninism on War and Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joshua E. Kastenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317055778

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Shaping US Military Law by Joshua E. Kastenberg Pdf

Since the United States’ entry into World War II, the federal judiciary has taken a prominent role in the shaping of the nation’s military laws. Yet, a majority of the academic legal community studying the relationship between the Court and the military establishment argues otherwise providing the basis for a further argument that the legal construct of the military establishment is constitutionally questionable. Centering on the Cold War era from 1968 onward, this book weaves judicial biography and a historic methodology based on primary source materials into its analysis and reviews several military law judicial decisions ignored by other studies. This book is not designed only for legal scholars. Its intended audience consists of Cold War, military, and political historians, as well as political scientists, and, military and national security policy makers. Although the book’s conclusions are likely to be favored by the military establishment, the purpose of this book is to accurately analyze the intersection of the later twentieth century’s American military, political, social, and cultural history and the operation of the nation’s armed forces from a judicial vantage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HW283T

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The United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Military Service Institution of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PRNC:32101049986076

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Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States by Military Service Institution of the United States Pdf

Author : Harold Melvin Hyman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009320790

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A More Perfect Union by Harold Melvin Hyman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094719044

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American and European Military Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Medicine
ISBN : IOWA:31858046176107

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The London Lancet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.