Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-military Gap and American National SecurityPeter Feaver, Richard H. Kohn MIT Press, 2001 - 545 páginas 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. |
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The Gap Between Military and Civilian in the United States in Perspective | 1 |
The Growing Gap | 13 |
Of Chasms and Convergences Attitudes and Beliefs of Civilians and Military Elites at the Start of a New Millennium | 15 |
Attitudes and Opinions Among Senior Military Officers and a US CrossSection 199899 | 101 |
Uncertain Confidence Civilian and Military Attitudes about CivilMilitary Relations | 129 |
Attitudes of EntryLevel Enlisted Personnel ProMilitary and Politically Mainstreamed | 163 |
Changes in CivilMilitary Gaps Over Time | 213 |
The American CivilMilitary Cultural Gap A Historical Perspective Colonial Times to the Present | 215 |
Military Interests and Civilian Politics The Influence of the CivilMilitary Gap on Peacetime Military Policy | 327 |
Do Military Policies on Gender and Sexuality Undermine Combat Effectiveness? | 361 |
Military Professionalism and Policymaking Is There a CivilMilitary Gap at the Top? If So Does It Matter? | 403 |
The Unequal Dialogue The Theory and Reality of CivilMilitary Relations and the Use of Force | 429 |
Conclusion The Gap and What It Means for American National Security | 459 |
Triangle Institute for Security Studies Survey on the Military in the PostCold War Era | 475 |
Bibliography | 497 |
About the Authors | 529 |
The Militarys Presence in American Society 195O2OOO | 247 |
Vanishing Veterans The Decline of Military Experience in the US Congress | 275 |
Explaining the Gap Vietnam the Republicanization of the South and the End of the Mass Army | 289 |
Implications for Military Effectiveness and CivilMilitary Cooperation | 325 |
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