Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War

by Beehner, Lionel
ISBN: 9780197535509
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Overview

The United States professionalized military is subordinated to civilian control. Through chapters written by respected civil-military relations scholars, military professionals, and policymakers, the book accounts for new geopolitical realities and addresses the question of how the United States can maintain the professionalization of its armed forces in a time of political polarization.

This book also examines what happens when the military is called upon to perform tasks beyond the management of violence and explores civil-military relations in an increasingly dynamic and complex threat environment. In this environment, traditional uses of armed force no longer involve formal declarations of war or conventional deployments of force, but rather encompass a diverse range of activities from cyberwar, to information operations, to other forms of asymmetric warfare. The book argues that modern means and methods of warfare are reshaping the contours of what it means to be "professional" and what healthy civil-military relations look like in practice.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Beehner, Lionel
  • ISBN: 9780197535509
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.10 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 376
  • Publication Year: 2020
Language: English