Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (Belknap Press)

Table of Contents: * PART I: Military Institutions and The State: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- 1.) Officership as a Profession -- 2.) The Rise of the Military Profession in Western Society -- 3.) The Military Mind: Conservative Realism of the Professional Military Ethic -- 4.) Power, Professionalism, and Ideology: Civil-Military Relations in Theory -- 5.) Germany and Japan: Civil-Military Relations in Practice ------- * PART II: Military Power in America: The Historical Experience 1789-1940 -- 6.) The Ideological Constant: The Liberal Society versus Military Professionalism -- 7.) The Structural Constant: The Conservative Constitution versus Civilian Control -- 8.) The Roots of the American Military Tradition before the Civil War -- 9.) The Creation of the American Military Profession -- 10.) The Failure of the Neo-Hamiltonian Compromise, 1890-1920 -- 11.) The Constancy of Interwar Civil-Military Relations ------- * PART III: The Crisis of American Civil-Military Relations, 1940-1955 -- 12.) World War II: The Alchemy of Power -- 13.) Civil-Military Relations in the Postwar Decade -- 14.) The Political Roles of the Joint Chiefs -- 15.) The Separation of Powers and Cold War Defense -- 16.) Departmental Structure of Civil-Military Relations ------- 17.) Toward a New Equilibrium -- * Notes -- * Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . Publisher's note: In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of civil-military relations and subjecting it to rigorous historical analysis.