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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Huntington, Samuel P. Soldier and the state. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957 (OCoLC)756423709 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel P Huntington |
| ISBN: | 9780674817364 0674817362 |
| OCLC Number: | 569431 |
| Description: | xiii, 534 p. 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Officership as a profession -- Rise of the military profession in Western society -- Military mind: conservative realism of the professional military ethic -- Power, professionalism, and ideology: civil-military relations in theory -- Germany and Japan: civil-military relations in practice -- Ideological constant: the liberal society versus military professionalism -- Structural constant: the conservative constitution versus civilian control -- Roots of the American military tradition before the Civil War -- Creation of the American military profession -- Failure of the neo-Hamiltonian compromise, 1890-1920 -- Constancy of interwar civil-military relations -- World War II: the alchemy of power -- Civil-military relations in the postwar decade -- Political roles of the Joint Chiefs -- Separation of powers and Cold War defense -- Departmental structure of civil-military relations -- Toward a new equilibrium. |
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