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'''''The Soldier and the State: the Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations''''' is a 1957 book by [[Samuel Huntington]], is one of the formative works in the field of [[military sociology]].<ref name=SATS>{{citation | '''''The Soldier and the State: the Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations''''' is a 1957 book by [[Samuel Huntington]], is one of the formative works in the field of [[military sociology]]. It assumes the military profession is indeed a profession. | ||
==Part 1, Military Institutions and the State== | |||
===Officership as a Profession=== | |||
Huntington limits his definition of professionalism to officers, but speaks of career enlisted men as members of a professional army. Not all military officers are, in his view, of the profession of arms -- a military surgeon is of a different profession. His concept of the professional officer is that the officer, as suggested by [[Harold Lasswell]], is an expert in "the management of violence"; the officer's responsibility — professions are defined to have broad responsibilities — "is to the military security of his client, society."<ref name=SATS>{{citation | |||
| title = The Soldier and the State: the Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations | | title = The Soldier and the State: the Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations | ||
| author = [[Samuel Huntington]] | | author = [[Samuel Huntington]] | ||
| year = 1957 | | year = 1957 | ||
| publisher = Harvard University | | publisher = Harvard University | ||
| edition = 1964 Vintage Edition}}</ref> | | edition = 1964 Vintage Edition}}, pp. 14-15</ref> | ||
=== | [[Noncommissioned officer]] (NCO) does not appear in the index, yet most advanced military forces regard their NCOs as essential professionals -- ones concerned with the preparation and performance of individuals while officers are concerned with the preparation and performance of units. Senior NCOs also mentor junior officers. <ref>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm6-22.pdf | |||
| id = Field Manual (FM) 6-22 | |||
| title = Leadership: Competent, Confident, and Agile | |||
| publisher = U.S. Army | |||
| date = October 2006 | |||
}}, p. 3-3</ref> | |||
===The Rise of the Military Profession=== | ===The Rise of the Military Profession=== | ||
===The Military Mind=== | ===The Military Mind=== | ||
Revision as of 19:33, 13 July 2010
The Soldier and the State: the Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations is a 1957 book by Samuel Huntington, is one of the formative works in the field of military sociology. It assumes the military profession is indeed a profession.
Part 1, Military Institutions and the State
Officership as a Profession
Huntington limits his definition of professionalism to officers, but speaks of career enlisted men as members of a professional army. Not all military officers are, in his view, of the profession of arms -- a military surgeon is of a different profession. His concept of the professional officer is that the officer, as suggested by Harold Lasswell, is an expert in "the management of violence"; the officer's responsibility — professions are defined to have broad responsibilities — "is to the military security of his client, society."[1]
Noncommissioned officer (NCO) does not appear in the index, yet most advanced military forces regard their NCOs as essential professionals -- ones concerned with the preparation and performance of individuals while officers are concerned with the preparation and performance of units. Senior NCOs also mentor junior officers. [2]
The Rise of the Military Profession
The Military Mind
Power, Professionalism and Ideology
Germany and Japan
Part 2, Military Power in America (1798-1940)
The Ideological Constant
The Structural Constant
Before the Civil War
Creating the American Military Profession
Failure of the Neo-Hamiltonian Compromise
Constancy of Interwar Civil-Military Relations
Part 3, The Crisis of American Civil-Military Relations (1940-1955)
References
- ↑ Samuel Huntington (1957), The Soldier and the State: the Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (1964 Vintage Edition ed.), Harvard University, pp. 14-15
- ↑ Leadership: Competent, Confident, and Agile, U.S. Army, October 2006, Field Manual (FM) 6-22, p. 3-3