American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era

American Civil—Military Relations offers the first comprehensive assessment of the subject since the publication of Samuel P. Huntington's field—defining book, The Soldier and the State. Using this seminal work as a point of departure, experts in the fields of political science, history, and sociology ask what has been learned and what more needs to be investigated in the relationship between civilian and military sectors in the 21st century.

Leading scholars—such as Richard Betts, Risa Broo...