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polychrome |
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Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations; Contents; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 The Opening Statement; The Strategic Civil-Military Relationship Problem; The Scholarship Gap: The Inability to Diagnose Poor Civil-Military Relationships; Applying the Law of Agency; Notes; 3 The Case-In-Chief: What the Law Does (Not) Say; The Constitution Structures Civil-Military Relations; Legislation Organizes Civil-Military Relations; Case Law Remains Silent on Civil-Military Relations; Administrative Regulations Focus on Undue Personal Gain, not Civil-Military Relations |
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Military Doctrine Looks Down and In, not Up and OutNotes; 4 The Expert Witnesses: A Cross-Examination; Huntington, Professionalism, and Two Forms of Control; Janowitz, Civil-Military Fusion, and the Military as a Pressure Group; Cohen and Unequal Partnerships; Feaver, Agency, and Rational Actors; Notes; 5 The Expert Witnesses: The Fingerprints of Agency; Notes; 6 The Rebuttal Witnesses: From Agency to Norms to Diagnosis; Jurisprudential Agency; Notes; 7 Exhibit A: Scope of Responsibility and Authority; President-General-Soldier-in-Chief: The Case of Jefferson Davis |
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McClellan's Megalomania and Ridgeway's RecalcitranceThe Case of the True Believer: Maxwell Taylor; Notes; 8 Boundaries, or a "Poverty of Useful and Unambiguous Authority"?; Notes; 9 Exhibit B: When Fidelity and Frankness Conflict; Revolt of the Admirals; Lincoln's Spy; Notes; 10 Exhibit C: Amending the Goldwater-Nichols Act; Example Draft Text of an Amendment; [Amended] 151. Joints Chiefs of Staff: Composition; Functions; Fiduciary Duties; Goldwater-Nichols Agency Applied; Notes; 11 Exhibit D: The Future Fallacy: A Civ-Mil Dialogue; Notes; 12 Closing Argument; Index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or "crisis" of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite. The author's premise is that currently there is no objectively fair way for the public at large or the strategic-level elites to assess whether the critical and often obscured relationships between Generals, Admirals, and Statesmen function as they ought to under the US constitutional system. By treating these relationships--in form and practice--as part of a wider principal (civilian)-agency (military) dynamic, the book tracks the "duties"--Care, competence, diligence, confidentiality, scope of responsibility--and perceived shortcomings in the interactions between US civilian political authorities and their military advisors in both peacetime and in war. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Civil-military relations -- United States.
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Civil-military relations. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Public relations.
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Armed Forces. |
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Military law.
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Military law. |
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Politics & government. |
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Law & society. |
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Jurisprudence & philosophy of law. |
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Military history. |
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Warfare & defence. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy. |
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Armed Forces -- Public relations. |
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Print version: Maurer, Daniel, Major. Crisis, agency, and law in US civil-military relations. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] 3319535250 9783319535258 (OCoLC)968647988 |
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9783319535265 (electronic book) |
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3319535269 (electronic book) |
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9783319535258 |
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3319535250 |
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