Lead Me, Follow Me, or Get Out of My Way - Rethinking and Refining the Civil-military Relationship (Enlarged Edition)

This monograph explains why robust civil-military relations matter and discusses how they are evolving. Part I discusses A More Perfect Military: How the Constitution Can Make Our Military Stronger by Diane Mazur, a book that examines the jurisprudence that has reshaped civil-military relations. Mazur maintains that since the Vietnam era, the U.S. Supreme Court has hewn the armed forces from general society in order to create a separate-and more socially conservative-sphere. Part II discusses The Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman, a wise and wide-ranging book which argues that the nation's polity is in decline and that the increasingly politicized armed forces may force a change in government. Part III asks where we go from here. The important books attribute a thinning of civilian control over the military to specific legal and political decisions. They explain some of the most important implications of this transformation.

Product details

• Authors: Strategic Studies Institute, Mark R. Shulman, U. S. Army War College
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2013
• EAN: 9781304074768
• ISBN: 978-1-304-07476-8
• No. of pages: 62
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 280 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 184 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries