berghahn New York · Oxford

Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Breach, Neglect, Guidance
Thomas Crosbie

Part I: New Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 1. What is Military Politics?
Thomas Crosbie

Chapter 2. Rethinking Clausewitz’s Chameleon: Is It Time for Western Militaries to Abandon the Idea of War’s Immutable Nature?
Anders Theis Bollmann and Søren Sjøgren

Part II: New Perspectives on Senior Officership

Chapter 3. Military Contrarianism: The Case of Israel
Yagil Levy

Chapter 4. Embedded in Politics: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, its Chairman, and the Structure of U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Sharon K. Weiner

Chapter 5. Civil-Military Challenges and the Militia
James Campbell

Chapter 6. Strategic Civil-Military Relations: Tomorrow’s Generals’ Views on Dissent, Disobedience and Principled Resignation
Steven Lee Katz

Part III: Military Politics and Military Operations

Chapter 7. Military Politics on the Battlefield: Strategy and Effectiveness in War
Carrie A. Lee

Chapter 8. Begging Permission, Asking Forgiveness: Explaining How Officers Handle Wearing Two Hats in Multilateral Military Operations
Stephen M. Saideman

Chapter 9. Judges on the Battlefield? Judicial Observer Effects in US and UK National Security Policies
Lena Trabucco

Chapter 10. Small Powers’ Civil-Military Relations: Two Smoking Guns
Carsten Roennfeldt

Conclusion: Military Politics as Research Program
Thomas Crosbie

References
Index

Military Politics

New Perspectives

Edited by Thomas Crosbie

272 pages, 9 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-023-7 Hb Published (July 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80539-024-4 eBook

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“A provocative volume to initiate and inspire others.” • Choice

“This volume provides an extremely valuable contribution to the academic and military professional literatures … This volume will quickly become one that individuals turn to in order to inform their thinking and their collegial arguments.” • Alan Okros, Canadian Forces College

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. It introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations. As the first volume in Berghahn Books’ Military Politics series, it provides a blueprint for a new research paradigm dedicated to tracing how militaries shape their political environments, focusing particularly on the core democratic questions raised by politically-effective (and ineffective) militaries.

Thomas Crosbie is an Associate Professor of military operations at the Royal Danish Defence College. In addition to his articles and book chapters, he has edited volumes on the privatization of security (with Ori Swed), paramilitary culture (with Brad West), and maritime operations (with Edward R. Lucas, Samuel Rivera-Paez, and Felix Falck Jensen).

Series: Volume 1, Military Politics

Subject: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area:

LC: U21.5 .M4987 2023

BISAC: POL069000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Public Policy/Military Policy; POL017000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Public Affairs & Administration; SOC026040 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Social Theory