Daniel Maurer

Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or "crisis" of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite. The author's premise is that currently there is no objectively fair way for the public at large or the strategic-level elites to assess whether the critical and often obscured relationships between Generals, Admirals, and Statesmen function as they ought to under the US constitutional system. By treating these relationships-in form and practice-as part of a wider principal (civilian)-agency (military) dynamic, the book tracks the "duties"-care, competence, diligence, confidentiality, scope of responsibility-and perceived shortcomings in the interactions between US civilian political authorities and their military advisors in both peacetime and in war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-53525-8
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9783319535258
• ISBN-10: 3319535250
• Artikelnr.: 47409206

Autorenporträt

Major Dan Maurer is a combat veteran, former engineer officer, and has practiced military law as a prosecutor in courts-martial, as an appellate counsel, and in leadership positions within the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is a contributing author at the United States Military Academy's Modern War Institute. 

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction .- 2. The Opening Statement .- 3. The Case-in-Chief: What the Law Does (Not) Say .- 4. The Expert Witnesses: A Cross-Examination .- 5. The Expert Witnesses: Fingerprints of Agency .- 6. The Rebuttal Witnesses: From Agency to Norms to Diagnosis .- 7. Exhibit A: Scope of Responsibility and Authority .- 8. Boundaries, or A "Poverty of Useful and Unambiguous Authority?" .- 9. Exhibit B: When Fidelity and Frankness Conflict .- 10. Exhibit C: Amending the Goldwater-Nichols Act .- 11. Exhibit D: The Future Fallacy, A Civ-Mil Dialogue .- 12. Closing Argument.