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The Case-In-Chief: What the Law Does (Not) Say,manages these strategic civilian and military elites—the Constitution, statutes, case law, regulations, or military doctrine—neatly dictates the parameters or even the norms of these relationships. This chapter surveys the primary sources of legal and bureaucratic authority for these parties, rangin

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Exhibit A: Scope of Responsibility and Authority,esponsibility or “freedom of maneuver.” He relies on several historical vignettes to demonstrate the varying lengths by which civilian principles “leashed” their senior military officers. This chapter looks first to Jefferson Davis’s overbearing relationship with his generals, including Braxton Brag

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Exhibit B: When Fidelity and Frankness Conflict,l security or in legal practice—often work at cross-purposes, undermining the principal–agent relationship between strategic civil-military leader. Maurer summarizes two famous cases where fidelity to one’s principal (and vice versa) seemed to cramp the parallel duty of candor. Both the “Revolt of t

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Closing Argument,ized miscalculation. With the nature of this relationship fundamentally a principal–agent dynamic, and with “fingerprints” left by senior strategic civil and military leaders as evidence of that fact, Maurer concludes that common fiduciary duties of candor, loyalty, confidentiality, and scope of res

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