PPOL-665 US CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS

PPOL-665 US CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS

Faculty:

Tretler, David

This course examines the values, attitudes, and ideas at the heart of military professionalism and how they compare to the main lines of civilian thinking in the United States. The importance of this examination grows proportionally as military and civilian officials increasingly find themselves working side by side in various places all over the world. The course focuses on the fundamental questions at the heart of Samuel Huntington’s seminal book, The Soldier and the State, which addresses the nature of civilian control, the means by which it is established and sustained, and the health of U.S. civil-military relations. It weaves a careful, analytical examination of Huntington’s argument with comparative reviews of contemporary essays about U.S. civil-military relations. The course concludes with students either formulating policy recommendations for improving U.S. civil-military relations, or developing the central lines of a new theory of U.S. civil-military relations.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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• 2007-2008
• 2008-2009

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