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Melancholy reunion : a report from the future on the collapse of civil-military relations in the United States / Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

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Melancholy reunion : a report from the future on the collapse of civil-military relations in the United States / Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

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Colorado Springs (Colo.) : USAF institute for national security studies, US Air Force Academy, 1996

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The civil-military environment in the late 1990s Vietnam and the politicization of the military Nontraditional missions and civil-military relations The rise of postmodern militarism The emergence of neopraetorianism The new American model of civil-military relations

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"The year is 2017. The United States has suffered not only defeats in the High-Tech War of 2007 and the Second Gulf War of 2010, but also a military coup of 2012. That coup, engineered by a highly politicized officer corps that blamed these bloody losses on 'incompetent' civilian leaders, was initially welcomed by a public exasperated with elected government. Only a few years of repressive military rule had passed, however, before the countercoup in 2015. The chastened electorate placed the thoroughly disgraced armed forces under draconian civilian control. The speaker in this essay addresses the twentieth reunion of the Air University classes of 1997, a rather melancholy even under the circumstances. He examines civil-military relations issues emerging in the 1996-1997 time frame that, with the benefit of twenty-first century hindsight, foretold the coming catastrophes. The speaker argues that too many analysts in the 1990s wrongly concluded that the military's acceptance of the shrinking defense budgets and the imposition of social policies on the armed forces 'proved' civilian control was secure." (page VIII)

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