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Silent coup of the guardians : the influence of U.S. military elites on national security / Todd Andrew Schmidt.

Schmidt, Todd Andrew, author.
2023
JF195 .S365 2023
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Title
Silent coup of the guardians : the influence of U.S. military elites on national security / Todd Andrew Schmidt.
Author
Schmidt, Todd Andrew, author.
ISBN
9780700633982
9780700633999
Published
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
JF195 .S365 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
322.5
Summary
"Understanding US national security and foreign policy decision-making requires understanding the actors: the president, civilian elites, advisors, bureaucracies, and institutions. In Silent Coup of the Guardians, Todd Schmidt demonstrates that military elites constitute an epistemic community and, as such, play a unique role due to their exceptional influence over both policy process and outcome. His findings help explain nuanced relationships between military elites, the president, and Congress; decision-making in national security and foreign policy; and civil-military balance of power relations that suggest a potential trend of praetorian behavior among U.S. military elites. He concludes that a silent coup of the guardians has occurred, and that professionals and citizens need to ask what should be done to re-balance civil-military relations"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Studies in civil-military relations.
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Silent coup of the guardians : the influence of U.S. military elites on national security.
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Military elites and praetorian propensities
Genesis of the guardians
The scholarly Roadmap
Military elites as an epistemic community
The role & influence of military elites
Consequences
Conclusion
Appendix A: Semi-structured interview Questions
Appendix B: Sample population
Appendix C: Wave one
Appendix E: Interview methodology
Appendix F: Analysis of the National Security Strategies of the United States
Appendix G: Military elite conceptual attributes and theoretical implication.

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