Our army: soldiers, politics, and American civil-military relations
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| adam_text | Contents
Lût
o f
Illustrations
xi
List of Tables
xiii
Preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xvii
Chapter
1.
Introduction
1
Citizenship and Service: A
2004
Survey of Army Personnel
5
The
2004
West Point Preelection Survey
7
Chapter
2.
Soldiers and Politics
10
Historical Overview
10
From the Revolution to Civil War
10
Post-Civil War
13
Post-World War II
15
Post-Vietnam
20
After the Cold War
23
Implications for Civil-Military Relations
27
Chapter
3.
An Overview of Army Demographics
34
The Army s Rank Structure
34
Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
35
Education and Income
38
Family and Region
40
The Virtual Army and Virtual Officer Corps
42
Chapter
4.
Social and Political Attitudes
45
Reasons for Joining
45
Views of the Army
47
Use of Military Force
48
Defense and Foreign Policy Spending
52
The Economy and Domestic Speeding
54
Social Issues
60
Attitudes toward Issues of Gender and Race
62
Trast
and Efficacy in Government
65
Conclusion
68
Chapters. Conservatism
70
Self-Identification
70
viü CONTENTS
Opting In and Opting Out?
82
Social and Economic Dimensions of Conservatism
85
Conclusion
92
Chapter
6.
Party Affiliation in the Army
95
Deriving Party Affiliation
95
Generic Party Identification
98
Identification with the Republican and Democratic Parties
101
Determinants of Republican Identification
105
The Meaning of Party Affiliation in the Army
109
Soldier and Officer Differences 111
Military and Civilian Differences 111
Republican-Democratic Differences
115
Party Affiliation and Foreign Policy
119
Conclusion
124
Chapter
7.
Political Participation
127
Voting
129
Displaying Support
131
Donating Money
131
Determinants of Political Activity
132
Mobility and Ease of Voting
137
Efficacy and Political Participation
139
Partisanship
and
Political Participation
140
Army Culture
144
Self-Selection Effect
146
Conclusion
149
Chapter
8.
The Army s Next Generation
152
Existing Research on Cadets and Socialization
153
Self-Selection
154
The Limits of Socialization
155
Shaping Political Attitudes?
157
The
2004
Cadet Preelection Survey
160
Cadet Demographics
161
The Composition and Role of West Point Instructors
164
Ideology and Party Affiliation
165
Indoctrination or Self-Selection?
166
Demographics
167
Institutional Pressure?
169
Perceptions and Expectations
172
Conclusion
174
CONTENTS
IX
Chapter
9.
Army Attitudes in
2004
and Beyond
177
Conventional Wisdom and the Reality of Army Attitudes
178
A Generational Shift
184
Chapter
10.
The Way Forward
187
The Future of American Civil-Military Relations
187
Leveraging the Institution for Political Gain
191
Fulfilling Professional Obligations
191
Translating Service into Privilege
192
Lessons from the Army s Birthday
194
Update: The
2008
Election
197
Afterword
201
Thoughts on Sparta
.. . 201
...
and Babylon
203
Appendix A: Citizenship and Service:
A
2004
Survey of Army Personnel
207
Survey Method
207
Survey Response
210
Survey Weighting
214
Survey Instrument: C&S Survey
215
Appendix B: The
2004
Cadet Preelection Survey
223
Survey Instrument: The
2004
Cadet Preelection Survey
224
Appendix C: Comparison Surveys
240
Appendix D: The Virtual Army and
Virtual Officer Corps
243
Appendix E: Rules Governing Political Participation
of Members of the Army
245
Appendix F: Adjutant General s
Absentee Voting Message
247
Bibiliography
249
Index
259
Illustrations
3.1.
Racial and Ethnie Composition
of the Army
37
3.2.
Proportion
of Women in the Army, by Rank
38
3.3.
Educational Attainment in the Army and
Civilian Populations
39
3.4.
Income in the Army and Civilian Populations
41
5.1.
C&S Survey Liberal-Conservative Scale
71
5.2.
Social Issue and Economic Attitudes Scales
89
6.1.
Party Affiliation Algorithm
97
6.2.
Party Affiliation by Rank
100
6.3.
Party Affiliation (Army vs. Civilians)
103
6.4.
Party Affiliation {Officers vs. Civilians)
103
6.5.
Year of Entry and Party Affiliation in
2004
(Soldiers and Warrant Officers)
107
6.6.
Year of Entry and Party Affiliation in
2004
(Officers)
108
7.1.
Voting Rates by Time in Service
135
7.2.
Voting Rates by Party Identification
141
7.3.
Buttons, Stickers, arid Signs by Party Identification
142
7.4.
Donating Money by Party Identification
143
7.5.
Voting Rates by Year of Entry
146
7.6.
Donations by Year of Entry
147
7.7.
Displaying Signs/Stickers by Year of Entry
148
9.1.
Party Identification among Senior Officers in the
Military Tunes Surveys,
2003-2007 186
Tables
1.1.
Sample Breakdown
by Race/Ethnicity, Rank, and Gender
8
3.1.
The Army s Rank Structure
36
4.1.
Self-Reported Level of Morale
47
4.2.
Senior Officer and Civilian Elite Attitudes toward
Potential Roles of the Military
50
4.3.
Soldier and Officer Attitudes toward Potential Roles
of the Military
51
4.4.
Army and Civilian Attitudes toward Defense and
Foreign Policy Spending
54
4.5.
Attitudes toward Spending on Domestic Programs
57
4.6.
Attitudes toward Government s Role in
Economic
Weił-Being
59
4.7.
Equal Role for Women
63
4.8.
Attitudes toward Affirmative Action
66
5.1.
Ideological Identification of Senior Officers
72
5.2.
Ideological Identification in the Army and
American Society,
2004 74
5.3.
Ideology by Rank
75
5.4.
Ideological Identification by Subgroup
76
5.5.
Demographics and Ideological Identification
77
5.6.
Ideological Identification in the Virtual Army
and Officer Corps
79
5.7.
Perceived Ideological Distance and Career Intent (Officers)
84
5.8.
Perceived Ideological Distance and
Morale/Optimism (Soldiers)
85
5.9.
Correlations between Social and Political
Attitudes and Ideology
87
5.10.
Distribution of Social and Economic Attitudes
90
5.11.
Correlations between Foreign Policy Issues and Ideology
92
6.1.
Party Identification in the Army and Civilian Populations
101
6.2.
Party Identification by Rank
102
6.3.
Party
Identification
by Demographic Subgroup
104
6.4.
Social and Political Attitudes and Party Identification
110
6.5.
Aggregate Attitudes of Army Republicans
112
6.6.
Aggregate Attitudes of Army Democrats
113
6.7.
Republicans in the Army and Civilian Republicans
114
Xiv
TABLES
6.8.
Democrats in the Army and Civilian Democrats
115
6.9.
Party Disagreement Index (Army, Internal)
117
6.10.
Party Disagreement Index (Officers vs. Civilians)
118
6.11.
Party Disagreement Index (Soldiers vs. Civilians)
119
6.12.
Party Identification and Potential Army Missions (Officers)
121
6.13.
Party Identification and Potential Army Missions (Soldiers
and Warrant Officers)
122
6.14.
Partisan Differences among Officers across
27
Issues
123
7.1.
Political Activity
132
7.2.
Rates of Political Participation
133
8.1.
Current and Projected Political Preferences,
Cadets and Civilians
(1969) 154
8.2.
Composition of West Point Survey Respondents
161
8.3.
Race/Ethnicity and Gender of West Point Cadets,
2005 162
8.4.
Race/Ethnicity and Gender of Institute of
Politics Respondents,
2004 163
8.5.
Ideological Distribution of General Population,
18-24-
Year-Olds, Cadets, and Army Lieutenants
165
8.6.
Party Affiliation among IOP College Students, Cadets,
and Army Lieutenants
166
8.7.
Republican Party Identification by Race/Ethnicity
and Gender
167
8.8.
Parent s Party Affiliation
168
8.9.
Parent-Cadet Party Affiliation Match
169
8.10.
Pressure to Identify with a Certain Political Party
170
АЛ.
Sample Breakdown by Race/Ethnicity and Gender
209
A.2. Timing of Response Solicitations
211
À.3.
Response Rates by Key Demographic
212
A.4. Case-Wise Deletion and Multiple-Imputation Comparison
213
B.I. Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Cadet Survey Respondents
223
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