Civil-Military Relations in War College Curricula

This article accepts the norms related to civil-military relations that Don Snider et al. propose in this special issue as being the appropriate norms for professional military officers. It then reviews the curricula of the six war colleges to see what they are currently teaching about civil-militar...

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Published in:Armed forces and society 2001, Vol.27 (2), p.273-294
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Civil-military relations
Colleges
Curricula
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Ethics
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Military Civilian Relations
Military Officers
Military schools
Norms
Social Control
Social factors
Student Attitudes
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War college
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