The soldier and the state: the theory and politics of civil-military relations

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: National Security and Civil-Military Relations -- Part I: Military Institutions and the State: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- Chapter 1. Officership as a Profession -- Professionalism and the Military -- The Concept of Profession -- The Military Profession -- Chapter 2. The Rise of the Military Profession in Western Society -- A New Social Type -- Mercenary and Aristocratic Officership -- Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Institutions -- Preprofessional Ideals: The Military Craft and the Natural Genius -- The Origins of Professionalism -- The Emergence of Professional Institutions, 1800-1875 -- European Professionalism: General Upton's Summary, 1875 -- Formulation of the Professional Ethic: The Autonomy and Subordination of War in Clausewitz's Vom Kriege -- Chapter 3. The Military Mind: Conservative Realism of the Professional Military Ethic -- The Meaning of the Military Mind -- The Professional Military Ethic -- Chapter 4. Power, Professionalism, and Ideology: Civil-Military Relations in Theory -- The Varieties of Civilian Control -- The Two Levels of Civil-Military Relations -- The Equilibrium of Objective Civilian Control -- The Patterns of Civil-Military Relations -- Chapter 5. Germany and Japan: Civil-Military Relations in Practice -- The German and Japanese Patterns -- Germany: The Tragedy of Professional Militarism -- Japan: The Continuity of Political Militarism -- Part II: Military Power in America: The Historical Experience, 1789-1940 -- Chapter 6. The Ideological Constant: The Liberal Society versus Military Professionalism -- The Historical Constants of American Civil-Military Relations -- The Prevalence of Liberalism in the United States -- The Liberal Approach to Military Affairs -- The Military Hero in Liberal Politics