Armed Servants

Author : Peter Feaver
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036772
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armed Servants written by Peter Feaver and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the armed servants of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on strategic calculations of whether civilians will catch and punish misbehavior. This model challenges Samuel Huntington's professionalism-based model of civil-military relations, and provides an innovative way of making sense of the U.S. Cold War and post-Cold War experience--especially the distinctively stormy civil-military relations of the Clinton era. In the decade after the Cold War ended, civilians and the military had a variety of run-ins over whether and how to use military force. These episodes, as interpreted by agency theory, contradict the conventional wisdom that civil-military relations matter only if there is risk of a coup. On the contrary, military professionalism does not by itself ensure unchallenged civilian authority. As Feaver argues, agency theory offers the best foundation for thinking about relations between military and civilian leaders, now and in the future.

Author : Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788181580566
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soldier and the State written by Samuel P. Huntington and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clifford Walton
Publisher : London, Harrison & sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the British Standing Army. A.D. 1660 to 1700 written by Clifford Walton and published by London, Harrison & sons. This book was released on 1894 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Utilization of Military Manpower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utilization of Military Manpower written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Utilization of Military Manpower and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 55. Investigates allegations of improper and inefficient utilization of military personnel. Focuses on proposal for use of civilian personnel for many noncombat military jobs and improper use of military personnel to perform personal services for superiors.

Author : Peter D. Feaver
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400841453
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Your Battles written by Peter D. Feaver and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's debate over whether and how to invade Iraq clustered into civilian versus military camps. Top military officials appeared reluctant to use force, the most hawkish voices in government were civilians who had not served in uniform, and everyone was worried that the American public would not tolerate casualties in war. This book shows that this civilian-military argument--which has characterized earlier debates over Bosnia, Somalia, and Kosovo--is typical, not exceptional. Indeed, the underlying pattern has shaped U.S. foreign policy at least since 1816. The new afterword by Peter Feaver and Christopher Gelpi traces these themes through the first two years of the current Iraq war, showing how civil-military debates and concerns about sensitivity to casualties continue to shape American foreign policy in profound ways.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521349932
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli: The Prince written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.

Author : War office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army equipment written by War office and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey W. Donnithorne
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425424
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Guardians written by Jeffrey W. Donnithorne and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explains who the four US military services truly are and why they make and execute policy as they do. The book focuses on American civil-military relationships, explaining why the services imperfectly satisfy their civilian bosses and why the four services think and act so differently from one another. Ultimately, the book offers three independent but mutually reinforcing contributions to the fields of security studies and American civil-military relations. First, it builds on one of the major theoretical approaches to civil-military relations--agency theory--and identifies key conditions under which agency theory best explains military service behavior. Author Jeffrey W. Donnithorne provides a "principled agent" model that finds four unique condition sets that explain civil-military dynamics with new clarity. Second, the book exposes the importance of service culture in civil-military relations and offers a rich yet concise portrait of each of the four US military services: the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.Third, the book offers two important case studies of civil-military policymaking. These two cases demonstrate the principled agent framework in action, while amply revealing the four services as distinctly different political actors. Finally, the book offers both conclusions and implications for today's security environment, suggesting likely pathways where the services will diverge in their approach to current defense issues. With theoretical novelty, empirical depth, and engaging military history, the book aims to reach academics, practitioners, and general readers alike"--

Author : Military Service Institution of the United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States written by Military Service Institution of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1464 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: