The Soldier and the State

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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.[1]

Part 1, Military Institutions and the State

Officership as a Profession

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

  1. Samuel Huntington (1957), The Soldier and the State: the Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (1964 Vintage Edition ed.), Harvard University