Soldiers and Civilians analyzes the emerging civil-military "gap" in the United States, drawing on a major survey of military officers, civilian leaders, and the general public. The book's contributors, leading scholars of defense policy, find that numerous schisms have undermined civil-military cooperation and harmed military effectiveness.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
 Sell Back Your Copy for $1.03
Whether you buy it used on Amazon for $5.50 or somewhere else, you can sell it back through our Book Trade-In Program at the current price of $1.03.
Used Price$5.50
Trade-in Price$1.03
Price after
Trade-in$4.47 |
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is a superb, penetrating, comprehensive, balanced analysis. Peter Feaver and Richard Kohn highlight what they see as worrisome trends: the 'Republicanization' of the officer corps and the growing belief among officers that top military leaders should not just advise political leaders on military policy but should insist that political leaders adopt the right policy. Feaver and Kohn nonetheless put these trends in the broader context of changes in civilian society and argue that while there is no crisis, there is cause for concern. For years to come this book will be the indispensable starting point for debates on and further studies of American civil-military relations." - Samuel P. Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead University Professor, Harvard University "This is one of the most important works in national security to appear in years... a masterpiece of modern interdisciplinary analysis." - Charles Moskos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
About the Author
Michael Benedikt is Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and is CEO of Mental Technology, Inc.
Richard H. Kohn is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
In a 1997 speech at Yale University, Secretary of Defense William Cohen raised the possibility of "a chasm . . . developing between the military and civilian worlds, where the civilian world doesn't fully grasp the mission of the military, and the military doesn't understand why the memories of our citizens and civilian policy-makers are so short, or why the criticism is so quick and so unrelenting" (Cohen 1997). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
growing political gap, joint professionalism, national security professionalism, peacetime military policy, leaders veteran leaders, active reserve leaders, civilian respondents, distinctive military values, military respondents, enlistment propensity, military traditionalism, current military service, gay commander, elite military officers, national security professionals, material salience, congressional veterans, senior military leadership, civilian gap, latent alienation, significant mean changes, active reservists, fewer veterans, relaxing environmental regulations, militant internationalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, World War, Other Civilian Young People, Civilian Civilian, Gulf War, Department of Defense, Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of War, Air Force, Pearson's Chi-Square, Vice Chairman, High Change, White House, Korean War, General Powell, New York, General Social Survey, Supreme Court, Ben Gurion, Nichols Act, School Military, Monitoring the Future, Mean Mean Mean Senior Year, New England New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
In a 1997 speech at Yale University, Secretary of Defense William Cohen raised the possibility of "a chasm . . . developing between the military and civilian worlds, where the civilian world doesn't fully grasp the mission of the military, and the military doesn't understand why the memories of our citizens and civilian policy-makers are so short, or why the criticism is so quick and so unrelenting" (Cohen 1997). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
growing political gap, joint professionalism, national security professionalism, peacetime military policy, leaders veteran leaders, active reserve leaders, civilian respondents, distinctive military values, military respondents, enlistment propensity, military traditionalism, current military service, gay commander, elite military officers, national security professionals, material salience, congressional veterans, senior military leadership, civilian gap, latent alienation, significant mean changes, active reservists, fewer veterans, relaxing environmental regulations, militant internationalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, World War, Other Civilian Young People, Civilian Civilian, Gulf War, Department of Defense, Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of War, Air Force, Pearson's Chi-Square, Vice Chairman, High Change, White House, Korean War, General Powell, New York, General Social Survey, Supreme Court, Ben Gurion, Nichols Act, School Military, Monitoring the Future, Mean Mean Mean Senior Year, New England New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
47
books
cite this book:
See all 47 books citing this book
- AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country by Kathy Roth-Douquet on 8 pages
- Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force by Peter D. Feaver on 7 pages
- Warriors and Politicians: US Civil-Military Relations Under Stress (Cass Military Studies) by CHARLES A. STEVENSON on 6 pages
- Uneasy Balance: Civil-Military Relations in Peacetime America since 1783 by Thomas S. Langston on 5 pages
- Bioterrorism Preparedness, Attack and Response (Advances in Health Care Management) by M. Fottler, H.A.C. Zap J. Blair on page 342, page 343, and page 344
See all 47 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > History > Americas > United States
- Books > History > Military
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Humanities > History > Military
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Social Sciences > Political Science > Government
- Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics
- Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences
