Soldiers and Civilians
Subtitle: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
Contributors: Peter D. Feaver (Editor); Richard H. Kohn (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780262561426
Subjects: Political science & theory; Warfare & Defence; History; Politics / Current Events; Military; USA; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Government - U.S. Government; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Military - General; Civil-military relations; Militarism; National security; Public opinion; United States
First sentence: In a 1997 speech at Yale University, Secretary of Defense William Cohen raised the possibility of "a chasm . . . developing between the military and civilian worlds, where the civilian world doesn't fully grasp the mission of the military, and the military doesn't understand why the memories of our citizens and civilian policy-makers are so short, or why the criticism is so quick and so unrelenting" (Cohen 1997).