Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Introduction National Security and Civil Military Relations. I. Military Institutions and the state Theoretical and historical perspectives 1. Officership as a profession. 2. The rise of the Military profession in western society. 3. The military mind conservative realism of the professional military ethic. 4. Power professionalism and ideology civil military relations in theory. 5. Germany and Japan civil military relations in practice. II. Military power in America the historical experience 1789 1940 6. The ideological constant the liberal society versus military professionalism. 7. The structural constant the conservative constitution versus civilian control. 8. The roots of the American military tradition before the Civil War. 9. The creation of the American Military profession. 10. The failure of the Neo Hamiltonian compromise 1890 1920. 11. The constancy of Interwar Civil Military Relations. III. The crisis of American civil military relations 1940 1955 12. World war II the alchemy of power. 13. Civil military relations in the Postwar decade. 14. The political roles of the joint chiefs. 15. The separation of powers and Cold War defense. 16. Departmental structure of civil military relations. 17. Toward a new equilibrium. Notes.