To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations - War on the Rocks
We are in an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment. Many of the factors that shape civil-military relations have undergone extreme strain
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This is strong statement of the relationship of between civilians and the military.
Politically, military professionals confront an extremely adverse environment characterized by the divisiveness of affective polarization that culminated in the first election in over a century when the peaceful transfer of political power was disrupted and in doubt. Looking ahead, all of these factors could well get worse before they get better.