Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations
The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War
Edited by Lionel Beehner, Risa Brooks, and Daniel Maurer
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Edited by Lionel Beehner, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Edited by Risa Brooks, Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science, Marquette University, and Edited by Daniel Maurer, Assistant Professor of Law and Fellow at the Modern War Institute, West Point
Lionel Beehner is an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly Research Director and Assistant Professor at West Point's Modern War Institute. Risa Brooks is Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, where she specializes in the study of civil-military relations and political violence. She is also a non-resident senior associate in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. and an Adjunct Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute. Daniel Maurer is Assistant Professor of Law at the United States Military Academy and Fellow with West Point's Modern War Institute, where he focuses on the intersection of civil-military relations and military justice. He is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and a judge advocate. He has served in Iraq twice, first as a combat engineer platoon leader and later a brigade's senior legal advisor.
Contributors:
Lionel Beehner is International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly an Assistant Professor at the US Military Academy at West Point. He holds a PhD in political science from Yale University.
Jessica Blankshain is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where she teaches courses on national security decision-making and civil-military relations. She has a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University.
Risa Brooks is Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, where she specializes in the study of civil-military relations and political violence. She is also a non-resident senior associate in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. and an Adjunct Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute.
David T. Burbach is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Professor Burbach holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Government from Pomona College. Dr. Burbach has previously published on civil-military relations and American public opinion regarding the use of force, as well as on African security, space, and other issues in defense planning and technology. The views expressed in his chapter are personal opinions of the author and do not represent the U.S. Navy or the United States Government.
Jonathan D. Caverley is Professor of Strategy in the Strategic & Operational Research Department of the Naval War College's Center for Naval Warfare Studies and a research scientist in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lindsay P. Cohn is Associate Professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the US Naval War College, where she teaches courses on international security, strategy, and US foreign policy. Her research focuses on civil-military relations, particularly issues of comparative labor market economics/personnel/recruiting, law, and public opinion.
Peter Feaver is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University where he directs the Program in American Grand Strategy. He has written widely on civil-military relations theory and practice.
Alice Hunt Friend is a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she focuses on African security issues and U.S. civil-military relations.
James T. Golby is a Defense Policy Advisor at the U.S. Mission to NATO. He previously served as a special adviser to the Vice President of the United States, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, and as a company commander and scout platoon leader in combat in Iraq.
Mara Karlin is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is also director of the school's Strategic Studies Program and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Karlin has served in national security roles for five U.S. secretaries of defense, advising on policies spanning strategic planning, defense budgeting, future wars, and the evolving security environment. She is the author of Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States.
Max Z. Margulies is Assistant Professor of international affairs and director of the Rupert H. Johnson Grand Strategy Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His research focuses on military recruitment and personnel policies, military effectiveness, and civil-military relations.
Daniel Maurer is Assistant Professor of Law at the United States Military Academy and Fellow with West Point's Modern War Institute, where he focuses on the intersection of civil-military relations and military justice. He is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and a judge advocate. He has served in Iraq twice, first as a combat engineer platoon leader and later a brigade's senior legal advisor.
William E. Rapp is a resident Lecturer in Military Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He joined the faculty at Harvard in 2017 after serving more than 33 years as an active duty Army officer, retiring as a Major General. He commanded an airborne engineer company in the First Gulf War, commanded an engineer brigade in Iraq in 2005-6, served alongside General Petraeus during the Iraq Surge of 2007-8, and served as Deputy Commander (Support) for US Forces in Afghanistan in 2011-12. He was the Commandant of the United States Military Academy, the Army's senior liaison to the U.S. Congress, and most recently served as the Commandant of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A graduate of West Point in 1984 as a civil engineer, he holds a Masters in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College and a Masters and PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.
Michael A. Robinson is an Assistant Professor of international affairs in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he teaches courses on international security, and political methodology. His research focuses on civil-US and comparative civil-military relations, public opinion, and democratic institutions.
Dakota S. Rudesill is a scholar, practitioner, and teacher of legislation and national security law and policy. An Assistant Professor at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, he has advised senior leaders in all three branches of the federal government.
Sarah Sewall has served in government as Under Secretary of State, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Senate Majority Leader, and on the Defense Policy Board. A professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for more than a decade, she now serves as EVP at In-Q-Tel; the views expressed in this volume are her own.
Marybeth P. Ulrich is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and is currently the Professor of Government at the U.S. Army War College. She has served as a civil-military relations adviser in NATO's Defense Education and Enhancement Program (DEEP) faculty in Moldova, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Baltic states.
Heidi A. Urben, a career military intelligence officer, commanded at the company, battalion, and brigade level in her 23 years in the Army. She previously served on the Joint Staff, as an Assistant Professor at West Point, Military Aide to the Secretary of Defense, and in various staff positions, including multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Peter B. White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Maryland in 2016. His research interests include civil-military relations, military organizations, and the management and prevention of armed conflict. His research has appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Journal of Politics, International Organization, The British Journal of Political Science, Security Studies, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and The Journal of Peace Research.
