TY - BOOK AU - Huntington,Samuel P. TI - The soldier and the state: the theory and politics of civil-military relations SN - 9780674817364 AV - UA23 .H92 PY - 1957/// CY - Cambridge PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Civil supremacy over the military KW - United States KW - fast KW - Civil-military relations KW - History KW - nli N1 - Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 469-517); 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 ER -