Titlebook: Inside Defense; Understanding the U. Derek S. Reveron,Judith Hicks Stiehm Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2

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Military Diplomacy and the Engagement Activities of Combatant CommandersState Department is America’s lead foreign policy organization, the Defense Department (DoD) is frequently tasked with filling diplomatic roles. Moreover, compared with the State Department, Defense has a distinct advantage in terms of both size and resources, with an operating budget sixty times gr

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The Undermilitarization of U.S. Foreign Policy?f both antipathy and potential foot soldiers, it seems clear to many analysts that U.S. foreign policy has become “militarized” in a way analogous to shifts in policy at the start of World War II or the Korean War. The concept of militarization can be defined and measured in three quite different wa

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The Military and Congressrepresented by these two distinctive buildings—the legislative branch and the executive branch, respectively, each of which has responsibility for the military— capture what is special about America. As designed by the framers of the Constitution, the checks and balances that support the principle o

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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Bush Military Buildupfacilitated, under the cover of that conflict, a military buildup separate from the funding for that war. The buildup—one of the largest increases in military spending in the country’s history—is one of the most important legacies of the Bush presidency, yet one of the less understood and least cont

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Invoking Military Credentials in Congressional Elections, 2000–2006words of uniformed personnel carry special weight in the public forum of American politics, whether they are the words of enlisted men and women appealing for redress or subtle policy signals from members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). In an environment where the president conditions his decisi

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Partisanship and the Military: Voting Patterns of the American Militarynantly as Republicans and tend to vote for Republican presidential candidates. Left unasked in the news coverage was whether that assumption was true and, if so, why. The military, particularly the enlisted ranks that make up about 85 percent of the military population, are overrepresented by minori