The Military And Politics In Modern Times On Professional Praetorians And Revolutionary Soldiers Written Under The Auspices Of The Center For International Affairs
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The Military and Politics in Modern Times
Author | : Amos Perlmutter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Armed Forces |
ISBN | : 9780300023534 |
Prætorianer-symbolik. - Forord af Samuel P. Huntington
Recognizing and Understanding Revolutionary Change in Warfare: The Sovereignty of Context
Author | : Colin S. Gray |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1428916210 |
"Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA) was the most widely used, and abused, acronym in the U.S. defense community in the 1990s. Subsequently, "transformation" has superceded it as the preferred term of art. For the better part of two decades, American defense professionals have been excited by the prospect of effecting a revolutionary change in the conduct and character of warfare. In this monograph, Dr. Colin S. Gray provides a critical audit of the great RMA debate and of some actual RMA behavior. He argues that the contexts of warfare are crucially important. Indeed so vital are the contexts that only a military transformation that allows for flexibility and adaptability will meet future strategic demands. Dr. Gray warns against a transformation that is highly potent only in a narrow range of strategic cases. In addition, he advises that the historical record demonstrates clearly that every revolutionary change in warfare eventually is more or less neutralized by antidotes of one kind or another (political, strategic, operational, tactical, and technological). He warns that the military effectiveness of a process of revolutionary change in a "way of war" can only be judged by the test of battle, and possibly not even then, if the terms of combat are very heavily weighted in favor of the United States. On balance, the concept of revolutionary change is found to be quite useful, provided it is employed and applied with some reservations and in a manner that allows for flexibility and adaptability. Above all else, the monograph insists, the contexts of warfare, especially the political, determine how effective a transforming military establishment will be.
The Soldier and the Changing State
Author | : Zoltan Barany |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2012-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691137692 |
Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, this title argues that the military is the important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be consolidated. It demonstrates that building democratic armies is the quintessential task of democratizing regimes.
Commandos and Politicians
Author | : Eliot A. Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Civil supremacy over the military |
ISBN | : |
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author | : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2506 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Who Guards the Guardians and How
Author | : Thomas C. Bruneau |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 029278340X |
The continued spread of democracy into the twenty-first century has seen two-thirds of the almost two hundred independent countries of the world adopting this model. In these newer democracies, one of the biggest challenges has been to establish the proper balance between the civilian and military sectors. A fundamental question of power must be addressed—who guards the guardians and how? In this volume of essays, contributors associated with the Center for Civil-Military Relations in Monterey, California, offer firsthand observations about civil-military relations in a broad range of regions including Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Despite diversity among the consolidating democracies of the world, their civil-military problems and solutions are similar—soldiers and statesmen must achieve a deeper understanding of one another, and be motivated to interact in a mutually beneficial way. The unifying theme of this collection is the creation and development of the institutions whereby democratically elected civilians achieve and exercise power over those who hold a monopoly on the use of force within a society, while ensuring that the state has sufficient and qualified armed forces to defend itself against internal and external aggressors. Although these essays address a wide variety of institutions and situations, they each stress a necessity for balance between democratic civilian control and military effectiveness.