Soldiers and Civilians : The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security

by Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262561426
• ISBN10: 0262561425
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Soldiers and Civiliansanalyzes 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction The Gap Between Military and Civilian in the United States in Perspective	1	(12)
Peter D. Feaver
Richard H. Kohn
Lindsay P. Cohn
Part I The Growing Gap	13	(200)
Of Chasms and Convergences: Attitudes and Beliefs of Civilians and Military Elites at the Start of a New Millennium	15	(86)
Ole R. Holsti
Attitudes and Opinions Among Senior Military Officers and a U.S. Cross-Section, 1998-99	101	(28)
James A. Davis
Uncertain Confidence: Civilian and Military Attitudes about Civil-Military Relations	129	(34)
Paul Gronke
Peter D. Feaver
Attitudes of Entry-Level Enlisted Personnel: Pro-Military and Politically Mainstreamed	163	(50)
David R. Segal
Peter Freedman-Doan
Jerald G. Bachman
Patrick M. O'Malley
Part II Changes in Civil-Military Gaps Over Time	213	(112)
The American Civil-Military Cultural Gap: A Historical Perspective, Colonial Times to the Present	215	(32)
Russell F. Weigley
The Military's Presence in American Society, 1950-2000	247	(28)
James Burk
Vanishing Veterans: The Decline of Military Experience in the U.S. Congress	275	(14)
William T. Bianco
Jamie Markham
Explaining the Gap: Vietnam, the Republicanization of the South, and the End of the Mass Army	289	(36)
Michael C. Desch
Part III Implications for Military Effectiveness and Civil-Military Cooperation	325	(150)
Military Interests and Civilian Politics: The Influence of the Civil-Military ``Gap'' on Peacetime Military Policy	327	(34)
Benjamin O. Fordham
Do Military Policies on Gender and Sexuality Undermine Combat Effectiveness?	361	(42)
Laura L. Miller
John Allen Williams
Military Professionalism and Policymaking: Is There a Civil-Military Gap at the Top? If So, Does it Matter?	403	(26)
Peter J. Roman
David W. Tarr
The Unequal Dialogue: The Theory and Reality of Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force	429	(30)
Eliot A. Cohen
Conclusion: The Gap and What It Means for American National Security	459	(16)
Peter D. Feaver
Richard H. Kohn
Technical Appendix Triangle Institute for Security Studies Survey on the Military in the Post-Cold War Era	475	(22)
Bibliography	497	(32)
About the Authors	529	(4)
Name Index	533	(8)
Subject Index	541	(7)
About the Belfer Center for Sciences and International Affairs	548