ISBN: 9781584875475 - Lead Me, Follow Me, or Get Out of My Way: Rethinking and Refining the Civil-military Relationship (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. (8)51pp.

Condition: Very Good. Overall very good condition. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sorry, No international shipping on this item.Paperback. Very Good. Interior clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very clean tight copy. Many others in the Strategic Studies Institute Monograph series available.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. September 2012, 51pp, light shelfwear to cover, contents clean.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. viii, 51, [5] p. Endnotes. Troubled relations between the armed forces and civil society sap the vitality of the republic and undermine the effectiveness of the military. This timely monograph launches a discussion about what kind of civil-military relationship we have and how to improve it. Mark R. Shulman is Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs and International Affiliations and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace Law School. He has conducted studies on behalf of the National Defense University, the U.S. Army War College, and the U.S. Naval War College. He has published widely in the fields of history, international affairs, and law. Dr. Shulman has edited The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World with Sir Michael Howard and George Andreopoulos, and edited another volume on General Telford Taylor and the prosecution of war crimes. He received his BA from Yale, and a master s degree from Oxford University. Dr. Shulman completed his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling.…