Securing the state
Subtitle: reforming the national security decisionmaking process at the civil-military nexus
By: Christopher P. Gibson.
Series: Military strategy and operational art
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780754672906
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 -- 2001-; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The civil-military dynamic : a relationship adrift; title: Excesses and over-corrections in US civil-military relations since the Second World War and the return of Donald Rumsfeld in 2001; title: The search for role models; title: Normative theory in civil-military relations during the Cold War : the objective control and subjective control models; title: The search for new normative theory in the Post-Cold War Era; title: A Madisonian approach for civil-military relations.