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Exploring Civil-Military Relations: Key Articles and Insights

This compilation presents a selection of essential readings on civil-military relations, emphasizing critical discussions relevant to U.S. military policy and ethics. Starting with Fred Hoffman's insightful articles at War on the Rocks, "A Second Look at the Powell Doctrine" and "A New American Military Ethic," the collection encourages readers to ponder significant questions surrounding strategy, policy, and military engagement. Additional contributions from influential voices like Tom Ricks and General Dempsey further enrich the exploration of these complex relationships. Each piece offers thoughtful perspectives worth considering.

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Exploring Civil-Military Relations: Key Articles and Insights

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  1. Some important pieces on civil-military relations. Not endorsed as “received wisdom,” but as things worth reading and thinking about. A few very recent articles Two articles with which to start, both by Fred Hoffman and published at War on the Rocks. Essentially, they contain a lot of the big questions about strategy, policy, people, and war that we’re trying to explore historically in HI301: “A Second Look at the Powell Doctrine,” (20 February, 2014) http://warontherocks.com/2014/02/a-second-look-at-the-powell-doctrine/ “A New American Military Ethic,” (6 August, 2014) http://warontherocks.com/2014/08/a-new-american-military-ethic/ Tom Ricks, 21 April 2014, republished 20 August, “I think this is the fundamental problem in U.S. civil-military relations these days,” http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/08/20/i_think_this_is_the_fundamental_problem_in_us_civil_military_relations_these_days

  2. Other pieces worth reading… • From International Security, Spring 2011, “The Right to Be Right: Civil-Military Relations and the Iraq Surge Decision,” http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20803/right_to_be_right.html • Munson, “A Caution on Civil-Military Relations,” from Small Wars Journal, November 2012, http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/a-caution-on-civil-military-relations • Mackubin Thomas Owens, lecture at the USAFA, May 2013, “What Military Officers Need to Know about Civil-Military Relations,” http://www.fpri.org/articles/2013/07/what-military-officers-need-know-about-civil-military-relations • General Dempsey’s article in the Washington Post, 3/7/2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/general-dempsey-the-military-needs-to-reach-out-to-civilians/2013/07/02/b10c3bb0-e267-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html • Analysis of GEN Dempsey in the WP, 1/7/2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/gen-dempsey-winning-our-nations-wars-is-no-longer-enough/2013/07/01/7d005270-e03c-11e2-963a-72d740e88c12_story.html • Transcript of Sec State Kerry, Sec Def Hagel, and GEN Dempsey at Senate FRC hearing on Syria, 3/9/2013 (very important for context and content), http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2013/09/03/35ae1048-14ca-11e3-b182-1b3bb2eb474c_story.html • Gian Gentile (taught at USMA till retirement last year), on why GEN Dempsey was right to speak out on Syrian intervention, 16/9/2013 http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/listen-to-general-dempsey/ • A 2012 Article from Naval War College Review on American Civil-Military Relations and Samuel P. Huntington, who wrote one of the classic books on the subject, https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/a76922f1-797a-4d61-b30b-28eebd4cb9c2/American-Civil-Military-Relations--Samuel-P--Hunti • U.S. Army War College bibliography on officership and the profession, C-M Relations on page 8, http://www.carlisle.army.mil/library/bibs/Officership2013.pdf • MIT, open course on Civil-Military Relations from 2003; the readings are worth looking at. Also, the course addresses C-M Relations outside the U.S. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/17-584-civil-military-relations-spring-2003/index.htm • To round out, a rather strident article on the obsession with Sparta (though I might add a significant portion of American culture in general, not just military culture), http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/08/27/welcome_to_spartanburg_the_dangers_of_this_growing_american_military_obsession

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