TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huntington,Samuel P.
TI  - The soldier and the state: the theory and politics of civil-military relations 
SN  - 9780674817364
AV  - UA23 .H89
PY  - 1957///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Militarism
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil supremacy over the military
KW  - fast
N1  - Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 469-517); Introduction: National security and civil-military relations --; Part I Military institutions and the state: Theoretical and historical perspectives; 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 --; Part II Military power in America: The historical experience, 1789-1940; 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 --; Part III The crisis of American civil-military relations, 1940-1955; 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 --; Index
N2  - An exploration of Huntington's conception of the officer corps as a professional body in the same sene as the bar or the clergy, acknowledging a responsibility to society as a whole and poessessing a sense of corporateness which excludes outsiders. These give it a distinct outlook and role which create the problem of civil-military relations
ER  -