The Soldier And The State

In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of civilmilitary relations and subjecting it to rigorous historical analysis.Part One presents the general theory of the military profession, the military mind, and civilian control. Huntington analyzes the rise of the military profession in western Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and compares the civilmilitary relations of Germany and Japan between 1870 and 1945.Part Two describes the two environmental constants of American civilmilitary relations, our liberal values and our conservative constitution, and then analyzes the evolution of American civilmilitary relations from 1789 down to 1940, focusing upon the emergence of the American military profession and the impact upon it of...