Civil-military relations and the u.s. Strategy deficit

[PaulOConnor]

A thoughtful essay on this very topic;

Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012. - CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.

http://www.uwec.edu/sfpj/Origins.pdf

Abstract:
I am calling my paper the "Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." I think it's important to get the truth recorded before they rewrite history. If we're ever going to get our freedom back, we've got to understand how we got into this mess. People need to understand that the armed forces exist to support and defend government, not to be the government. Faced with intractable national problems on one hand, and an energetic and capable military on the other, it can be all too seductive to start viewing the military as a cost-effective solution. We made a terrible mistake when we allowed the armed forces to be diverted from their original purpose...
Today's military is not the one we knew when we graduated from the War College.
From Parameters, Winter 1992-93, pp. 2-20, CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.
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Paul

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