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Soldiers and civilians : the civil-military gap and American national security
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Soldiers and civilians : the civil-military gap and American national security

Author: Peter Feaver; Richard H Kohn
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Series: BCSIA studies in international security
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Feaver; Richard H Kohn
ISBN: 0262062232 9780262062237 0262561425 9780262561426
OCLC Number: 47168762
Description: xii, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: the gap between military and civilian in the United States in perspective / Peter D. Feaver, Richard H. Kohn, and Lindsay P. Cohn -- Of chasms and convergences: attitudes and beliefs of civilians and military elites at the start of a new millennium / Ole R. Holsti -- Attitudes and opinions among senior military officers and a U.S. cross-section, 1998-99 / James A. Davis -- Uncertain confidence: civilian and military attitudes about civil-military relations / Paul Gronke and Peter D. Feaver -- Attitudes of entry-level enlisted personnel: pro-military and politically mainstreamed / David R. Segal ... [et al.] -- The American civil-military cultural gap: a historical perspective, colonial times to the present / Russell F. Weigley -- The military's presence in American society, 1950-2000 / James Burk -- Vanishing veterans: the decline of military experience in the U.S. Congress / William T. Bianco and Jamie Markham -- Explaining the gap: Vietnam, the republicanization of the south, and the end of the mass army / Michael C. Desch -- Military interests and civilian politics: the influence of the civil-military "gap" on peacetime military policy / Benjamin O. Fordham -- Do military policies on gender and sexuality undermine combat effectiveness? / Laura L. Miller and John Allen Williams -- Military professionalism and policymaking: is there a civil-military gap at the top? If so, does it matter? / Peter J. Roman and David W. Tarr -- The unequal dialogue: the theory and reality of civil-military relations and the use of force / Eliot A. Cohen -- Conclusion: the gap and what it means for American national security / Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn.
Series Title: BCSIA studies in international security
Responsibility: Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn, editors.
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