Civil–Military Relations and Policy: A Sampling of a New Wave of Scholarship

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Notes

¹ Paul Bremer, ‘How I Didn’t Dismantle Iraq’s Army’, New York Times, 6 Sept. 2007.

² Biddle, Stephen, Ryan Baker, and Julia Macdonald, ‘Small Footprint, Small Payoff: The Military Effectiveness of Security Force Assistance’, unpublished manuscript, 14 Feb. 2016.

³ Eric Nordlinger, Isolationism Reconfigured (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1995).

⁴ Steve Mufson, ‘“Assad Must Go”: Those Three Little Words are Huge Obstacle for Obama in Syria’, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2015.

⁵ John Mearsheimer, ‘Guns Won’t Win the Afghan War’, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2001.

⁶ Stephen Biddle, Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2004).

⁷ Risa Brooks, Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Poltics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

⁸ Stephen Biddle and Robert Zirkle, ‘Technology, Civil-Military Relations, and Warfare in the Developing World’, Journal of Strategic Studies 19/2 (June 1996) 171–212. On coup proofing more generally, see: James T. Quinlivan, ‘Coup-Proofing: Its Practice and Consequences in the Middle East’, International Security 24/2 (1999) 131–65; Ulrich Pilster and Tobias Bohmelt, ‘Coup-Proofing and Military Effectiveness in Interstate Wars, 1967–99’, Conflict Management and Peace Science 28/4 (September 2011) 331–50; and Jonathan Powell, Coups and Conflict: The Paradox of Coup-Proofing, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 2012.

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Peter Feaver

Peter Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. He is Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) and also Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy (AGS). From June 2005 to July 2007, Feaver served as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council Staff at the White House, where his responsibilities included the national security strategy, regional strategy reviews, and other political–military issues. Feaver is the author of Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003) and Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He is co-author, with Christopher Gelpi, of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton University Press, 2004); and co-editor, with Richard H. Kohn, of Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (MIT Press, 2001).