Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil-Military Relations

Conventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political. Our Army paints a more complex picture, demonstrating that while army officers are likely to be more conservative, rank-and-file soldiers hold political views that mirror those of the American public as a whole, and army personnel are less partisan and politically engaged than most civilians.


Assumptions about political attitudes in the U.S. Army are based largely on ...