Congress And Civil Military Relations

Author : Colton C. Campbell,David P. Auerswald
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626161801

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Congress and Civil-Military Relations by Colton C. Campbell,David P. Auerswald Pdf

While the president is the commander-in-chief, Congress plays a very significant and underappreciated role in US civil-military relations, the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leadership that commands it. Indeed, we cannot understand civil-military relations in the United States without an appreciation of Congress. The ebbs and flows in US civil-military relations depend in part on congressional use of four main tools available to provide direction to the military. These include the selection of military officers, determining how much authority is delegated to the military, oversight of the military, and establishing incentives for appropriate military behavior. Congress sets the military's budget, influences military policy by calling officers to testify, sets or changes personnel policy, and approves or rejects a host of initiatives from officer promotion to base closures. This unique book will help readers better understand the role of Congress in military affairs and national and international security policy.

Author : Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674238015

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The Soldier and the State by Samuel P. Huntington Pdf

In this classic work, Huntington challenges old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of civil–military relations and subjecting it to rigorous historical analysis.

Author : Charles A. Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135988494

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Warriors and Politicians by Charles A. Stevenson Pdf

Introduction : the peculiar nature of civil-military relations in the United States -- Revolutionary war by committee -- Lincoln, Congress, and the generals -- Managing the Vietnam War -- John Adams and the politics of rearmament -- Franklin Roosevelt and the politics of rearmament -- Harry Truman and the politics of rearmament -- Theodore Roosevelt and military modernization -- The McNamara revolution -- The Goldwater-Nichols revolution from above -- The Bush-Rumsfeld war and transformation -- Conclusions : U.S. civil-military relations under stress.

Author : Lionel Beehner,Risa Brooks,Daniel Maurer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197535516

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Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations by Lionel Beehner,Risa Brooks,Daniel Maurer Pdf

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.

Author : Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Civil-Military Relations Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Civil supremacy over the military
ISBN : UOM:39015023579520

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Civil-military Relations by Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Civil-Military Relations Research Pdf

Author : Don M. Snider,Miranda A. Carlton-Carew
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 089206305X

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U.S. Civil-military Relations by Don M. Snider,Miranda A. Carlton-Carew Pdf

Author : David Pion-Berlin,Rafael Martínez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107149977

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Soldiers, Politicians, and Civilians by David Pion-Berlin,Rafael Martínez Pdf

This book argues that for a nation to become fully democratic, it must strengthen the interactions between its soldiers, politicians, and civilians.

Author : Mackubin Thomas Owens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441183064

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US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11 by Mackubin Thomas Owens Pdf

A thorough survey of the key issues that surround the relations between the military and its civilian control in the US today.

Author : Charles L. Cochran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003508135

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Civil-military Relations; Changing Concepts in the Seventies by Charles L. Cochran Pdf

Forholdet mellem stater og deres væbnede styrker belyst gennem en række eksempler fra såvel demokratiske stater som ikke-demokratiske stater samt militære regimer i landene i Afrika syd for Sahara.

Author : David Pion-Berlin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 027104148X

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Through Corridors of Power by David Pion-Berlin Pdf

Drawing on field work in the country since the beginnings of democratic government in 1984, Pion-Berlin (political science, U. of California-Riverside) examines politicians and soldiers seeking to advance their own interests by moving through official channels. He describes how their policy gains and setbacks may have much to do with the organizational features of government they encounter. He also compares neighboring Uruguay and Chile. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Peter D. Feaver
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674263352

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Armed Servants by Peter D. Feaver Pdf

How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on strategic calculations of whether civilians will catch and punish misbehavior. This model challenges Samuel Huntington's professionalism-based model of civil-military relations, and provides an innovative way of making sense of the U.S. Cold War and post-Cold War experience--especially the distinctively stormy civil-military relations of the Clinton era. In the decade after the Cold War ended, civilians and the military had a variety of run-ins over whether and how to use military force. These episodes, as interpreted by agency theory, contradict the conventional wisdom that civil-military relations matter only if there is risk of a coup. On the contrary, military professionalism does not by itself ensure unchallenged civilian authority. As Feaver argues, agency theory offers the best foundation for thinking about relations between military and civilian leaders, now and in the future.

Author : Richard Kohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0415711657

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Civil-Military Relations in the United States by Richard Kohn Pdf

This volume comprises the best essays of Prof. Richard Kohn focusing on civilian control of the military in American history and contemporary national security affairs. One of the oldest problems of human society has been preventing armies from overthrowing their governments. From ancient times to the present–from Caesar crossing the Rubicon to Egypt's army hovering in the in the background as the ultimate arbiter of power to newly-installed Chinese leader Xi Jinping taking control of China's military instead of leaving that to his predecessor as was practice for nearly forty years–civilian control of the military has been crucial to political life. The founders of the United States certainly understood this principle. They wrote explicit provisions into the first state and federal constitutions to assure it. For over two centuries, American security has rested on the foundation of military subordination to civilian authority, with little worry about a coup or even an attempt. Yet the relationship between the most senior military officers and the political leadership have been anything but smooth, and in recent years the chains of civilian control have weakened – not to the point of direct challenges to civilian authority, but in the relative influence of the military in policy and decision making, the deference of politicians to generals, and a growing belief that the relationship has been so filled with tension and distrust as to endanger the country's security. This book will be of much interest to students of US politics, American history, civil-military relations and military studies in general.

Author : Dale R. Herspring
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700614912

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The Pentagon and the Presidency by Dale R. Herspring Pdf

While presidents have always kept a watchful eye on the military, our generals have been equally vigilant in assessing the commander-in-chief. Their views, however, have been relatively neglected in the literature on civil-military relations. By taking us inside the military's mind in this matter, Dale Herspring's new book provides a path-breaking, utterly candid, and much-needed reassessment of a key relationship in American government and foreign policymaking. As Herspring reminds us, that relationship has often been a very tense, even extremely antagonistic one, partly because the military has become a highly organized and very effective bureaucratic interest group. Reevaluating twelve presidents-from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush-Herspring shows how the intensity of that conflict depends largely on the military's perception of the president's leadership style. Quite simply, presidents who show genuine respect for military culture are much more likely to develop effective relations with the military than those who don't. Each chapter focuses on one president and his key administrators--such as Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, and Donald Rumsfeld-and contains case studies showing how the military reacted to the president's leadership. In the final chapter, Herspring ranks the presidents according to their degree of conflict with the military: Lyndon Johnson received exceedingly low marks for being overbearing and dismissive of the armed forces, further aggravating his Vietnam problem. George H. W. Bush inspired respect for not micromanaging military affairs. And Bill Clinton was savaged both privately and publicly by military leaders for having been a "draft dodger," cutting Pentagon spending, and giving the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" tag an unnecessarily high profile. From World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Herspring clearly shows how the nature of civilian control has changed during the past half century. He also reveals how the military has become a powerful bureaucratic interest group very much like others in Washington-increasingly politicized, media-savvy, and as much accountable to Congress as to the commander-in-chief. Ultimately, The Pentagon and the Presidency illuminates how our leaders devise strategies for dealing with threats to our national security-and how the success of that process depends so much upon who's in charge and how that person's perceived by our military commanders.

Author : Suzanne C. Nielsen,Don M. Snider
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801892875

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American Civil-Military Relations by Suzanne C. Nielsen,Don M. Snider Pdf

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

Author : Nancy Gentile Ford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313352218

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The Great War and America by Nancy Gentile Ford Pdf

The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Isolationism fell, and America joined the ranks of the Great Powers. Civil-Military relations faced new challenges as a result. Ford examines the multitude of changes that stemmed from America's first major overseas coalition war, including the new selective service process; mass mobilization of public opinion; training diverse soldiers; civil liberties, anti-war sentiment and conscientious objectors; segregation and warfare; Americans under British or French command. Post war issues of significance, such as the Red Scare and retraining during demobilization are also covered. Both the federal government and the military were expanding rapidly both in terms of size and in terms of power during this time. The new group of citizen-soldiers, diverse in terms of class, religion, ethnicity, regional identity, education, and ideology, would provide training challenges. New government-military-business relationships would experience failures and successes. Delicate relationships with allies would translate into diplomatic considerations and battlefield command concerns.