American Civil-Military Relations: New Issues, Enduring Problems.

Abstract

The authors feel the civil-military relationship, begun while America was still a collection of British colonies and subject of intense and acrimonious debate during the framing of the Constitution, exists on two levels. Most Americans agree that the objective is a competent, professional military able to contribute to national security policymaking but not to dominate it, but there is no consensus on the changes that the evolution of the global security environment will bring, or on the risks of too much military involvement in policymaking. The issues that will shape the future are clear, but their precise impact on civil-military relations is not. There is no crisis in American civil-military relations now, but what will happen in a decade or so when the psychological legacy of the Cold War fully fades and fundamental assumptions are again open to debate remains to be seen.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 24, 1995
Accession Number
ADA295649

Entities

People

  • Douglas V. Johnson Iii
  • Steven Metz

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cold War
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Education
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.