The Citizen in Uniform: Reform and Its Critics in the Bundeswehr.

Abstract

The West German armed forces face special constraints in their civil-military relations quite different from American experience. When the West German armed forces were created in the mid-1950s, the new officer corps had to refashion traditional concepts associated with this reform is Innere Fuehrung, term that cannot be fully translated into English. This study analyzes important phases in the internal debate about the efficacy of military reform in the West German armed forces.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA191664

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  • Donald Abenheim

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