Lead Me, Follow Me, or Get Out of My Way: Rethinking and Refining the Civil-Military Relationship

Mark R. Shulman

ISBN 10: 158487547X / ISBN 13: 9781584875475

Published by U. S. Army War College, U.S.A., 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lead Me, Follow Me, or Get Out of My Way: Rethinking and Refining the Civil-Military Relationship
• Publisher: U. S. Army War College, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158487547X
• ISBN 13: 9781584875475
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

This monograph explains why robust civil-military relations matter and discusses how they are evolving. Part I discusses A More Perfect How the Constitution Can Make Our Military Stronger by Diane Mazur, a book that examines the jurisprudence that has reshaped civil-military relations. Mazur maintains that since the Vietnam era, the U.S. Supreme Court has hewn the armed forces from general society in order to create a separate-and more socially conservative-sphere. Part II discusses The Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman, a wise and wide-ranging book which argues that the nation's polity is in decline and that the increasingly politicized armed forces may force a change in government. Part III asks where we go from here. The important books attribute a thinning of civilian control over the military to specific legal and political decisions. They explain some of the most important implications of this transformation.