This book presents a theory of civil-military relations. The reader will find much historical material, on the United States primarily, but also on Europe and Asia. Yet this book does not attempts an historical description of civil-military relations in particular. It is, rather, as effort to develop a way of looking at and thinking about civil-military relation, in short, a theoretical framework. Understanding requires theory; theory requires abstraction; and ...
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
