Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations
Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Notes -- 2 The Opening Statement -- The Strategic Civil-Military Relationship Problem -- The Scholarship Gap: The Inability to Diagnose Poor Civil-Military Relationships -- Applying the Law of Agency -- Notes -- 3 The Case-In-Chief: What the Law Does (Not) Say -- The Constitution Structures Civil-Military Relations -- Legislation Organizes Civil-Military Relations -- Case Law Remains Silent on Civil-Military Relations -- Administrative Regulations Focus on Undue Personal Gain, not Civil-Military Relations -- Military Doctrine Looks Down and In, not Up and Out -- Notes -- 4 The Expert Witnesses: A Cross-Examination -- Huntington, Professionalism, and Two Forms of Control -- Janowitz, Civil-Military Fusion, and the Military as a Pressure Group -- Cohen and Unequal Partnerships -- Feaver, Agency, and Rational Actors -- Notes -- 5 The Expert Witnesses: The Fingerprints of Agency -- Notes -- 6 The Rebuttal Witnesses: From Agency to Norms to Diagnosis -- Jurisprudential Agency -- Notes -- 7 Exhibit A: Scope of Responsibility and Authority -- President-General-Soldier-in-Chief: The Case of Jefferson Davis -- McClellan's Megalomania and Ridgeway's Recalcitrance -- The Case of the True Believer: Maxwell Taylor -- Notes -- 8 Boundaries, or a "Poverty of Useful and Unambiguous Authority"? -- Notes -- 9 Exhibit B: When Fidelity and Frankness Conflict -- Revolt of the Admirals -- Lincoln's Spy -- Notes -- 10 Exhibit C: Amending the Goldwater-Nichols Act -- Example Draft Text of an Amendment -- [Amended] 151. Joints Chiefs of Staff: Composition -- Functions -- Fiduciary Duties -- Goldwater-Nichols Agency Applied -- Notes -- 11 Exhibit D: The Future Fallacy: A Civ-Mil Dialogue -- Notes -- 12 Closing Argument -- Index
