Title: Securing the state : reforming the national security decisionmaking process at the civil-military nexus /
Authors: Gibson, Christopher P.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Civil-military relations United States; Civil supremacy over the military United States.; Government consultants United States.; Military policy Decision making; United States Armed Forces Management.; United States Politics and government; United States Politics and government
Contents: The civil-military dynamic : a relationship adrift -- Excesses and over-corrections in US civil-military relations since the Second World War and the return of Donald Rumsfeld in 2001 -- The search for role models -- Normative theory in civil-military relations during the Cold War : the objective control and subjective control models -- The search for new normative theory in the Post-Cold War Era -- A Madisonian approach for civil-military relations.