The New York Times ad by MoveOn.org portraying General Petraeus as potentially betraying America continues and threatens to exacerbate a trend that has developed over the past thirty years. Democrats have slowly, but surely, alienated themselves from the military. While words of “support for the troops” and “we are patriots, too” are all very likely true, the hard [...]
The recent (well done) article in Foreign Affairs by Michael Desch on the state of American civil military relations brought forth some strong and equally well written counter attacks by General Myers, Richard Kohn, and Mackubin Owens. This sort of very public argument is desperately needed. The last such debate occurred in the 1990s when a [...]
As reported by Military Times, most are now aware that the U. S. Air Force unknowingly transported six nuclear weapons on a B-52 bomber from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. This means, necessarily, that for some period of time those six weapons were not under control, at least [...]
You might also be interested in this research paper I put together a while back on the influence of Congress on American naval policy.
http://inbody.net/docs/CongressNavyInbody.pdf
Technorati Tags: civ-mil, Navy, Congress, policy
Some interest in the field of American civil military relations has sparked further interest in reading. I put together an annotated bibliography based on a list provided to me by Peter Feaver (Duke University). I hope you find it interesting. Some new things have come out or been located since, but this provides an excellent [...]
American civil-military relations are not well studied within political science. Even the trauma of Vietnam failed to instigate much creative research. The collapse of colonial empires and the increase of military coups in parts of the world initiated significant interest by comparativists in third world civil-military relations and he recent fall of the [...]
