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The soldier and the state : the theory and politics of civil-military relations / Samuel P. Huntington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huntington, Samuel P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Militarism--United States.
- Militarism.
- United States.
- Civil supremacy over the military--United States.
- Civil supremacy over the military.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 534 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957.
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- text file
- Summary:
- In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of civil-military relations and subjecting it to rigorous historical analysis.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 469-517).
- Print version record.
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Huntington, Samuel P. Soldier and the state.
- ISBN:
- 9780674238039
- 0674238036
- OCLC:
- 1057237548
- Publisher Number:
- 10.2307/j.ctvjf9wx3
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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