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Managing the Military is a pioneering analysis of the power of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that sheds new light on civil-military relations in the United States. Using detailed case studies of debates over defense budgets, Sharon K. Weiner examines when and how the JCS chairman opposes civilian defense policy preferences.
List of contents
List of Abbreviations
1. Structure, Politics, and Influence
2. The Chairman and Jointness
3. The Origins of Norms for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
4. Creating a Stronger Chairman
5. Leaving the Cold War Behind
6. Transformation
7. Sequestration
8. The Chairman, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Civil-Military Relations
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author
Sharon K. Weiner is an associate professor at the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise (2011). Weiner has also worked for the National Security Division of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Joint Staff’s Strategic Plans and Policy directorate, among other governmental roles.
Summary
Managing the Military is a pioneering analysis of the power of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that sheds new light on civil-military relations in the United States. Using detailed case studies of debates over defense budgets, Sharon K. Weiner examines when and how the JCS chairman opposes civilian defense policy preferences.
