Silent coup of the guardians :: the influence of U.S. military elites on national security /

"Understanding US national security and foreign policy decision-making requires understanding the actors: the president, civilian elites, advisors, bureaucracies, and institutions. In Silent Coup of the Guardians, Todd Schmidt demonstrates that military elites constitute an epistemic community...

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1. Verfasser: Schmidt, Todd Andrew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in civil-military relations.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
DE-863
Zusammenfassung:"Understanding US national security and foreign policy decision-making requires understanding the actors: the president, civilian elites, advisors, bureaucracies, and institutions. In Silent Coup of the Guardians, Todd Schmidt demonstrates that military elites constitute an epistemic community and, as such, play a unique role due to their exceptional influence over both policy process and outcome. His findings help explain nuanced relationships between military elites, the president, and Congress; decision-making in national security and foreign policy; and civil-military balance of power relations that suggest a potential trend of praetorian behavior among U.S. military elites. He concludes that a silent coup of the guardians has occurred, and that professionals and citizens need to ask what should be done to re-balance civil-military relations"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvii, 259 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0700633995
9780700633999

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