Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations
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The United States professionalized military is subordinated to civilian control. This book looks at that relationship by considering how social media, changing means of warfare, deepening political divisions, and an increasingly unpredictable operational environment have affected the organization of what is conventionally assumed to be an apolitical profession. Through chapters written by respected civil-military relations scholars, military professionals, and policymakers, the book argues that modern means and methods of warfare, not to mention evolving norms on the use of force, are…mehr

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The United States professionalized military is subordinated to civilian control. This book looks at that relationship by considering how social media, changing means of warfare, deepening political divisions, and an increasingly unpredictable operational environment have affected the organization of what is conventionally assumed to be an apolitical profession. Through chapters written by respected civil-military relations scholars, military professionals, and policymakers, the book argues that modern means and methods of warfare, not to mention evolving norms on the use of force, are reshaping the contours of what it means to be "professional" and what healthy civil-military relations look like in practice.
Autorenporträt
Lionel Beehner is an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly Research Director and Assistant Professor at West Point's Modern War Institute. Risa Brooks is Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, where she specializes in the study of civil-military relations and political violence. She is also a non-resident senior associate in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. and an Adjunct Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute. Daniel Maurer is Assistant Professor of Law at the United States Military Academy and Fellow with West Point's Modern War Institute, where he focuses on the intersection of civil-military relations and military justice. He is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and a judge advocate. He has served in Iraq twice, first as a combat engineer platoon leader and later a brigade's senior legal advisor.