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- In this installment of "Dunbar's commentary," Dr. Willis Dunbar addresses the influence of military personnel in President Truman's administration. Dunbar discusses the historical reasons the United States has worked to maintain a strict division between military and civilian authority, citing the Roman Empire as an instance in which the military authority usurped a free government. Dunbar then calls attention to the number of military personnel in important positions around President Truman, including Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Russian Ambassador Walter Smith, and the military governor of US occupied Germany Lucius Clay.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-10-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- This paper seeks first to underscore the limitations of Western models of civil control which African countries employ to create stable civil-military relations. Second, it uses the recent experience of Southern African civil-military relations to illustrate the extent to which effective civil control over the military has been secured through a combination of objective and subjective mecahnisms. And finally, it suggests some revisions in the conceptual architecture of late modern civil-military relations theory so as to ensure that discipline is more consistent with the exigencies of the African political landscape.
- Date Issued:
- 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- African Journal of Political Science
- Description:
- In this installment of "Dunbar's commentary," Dr. Willis Dunbar addresses the influence of military personnel in President Truman's administration. Dunbar discusses the historical reasons the United States has worked to maintain a strict division between military and civilian authority, citing the Roman Empire as an instance in which the military authority usurped a free government. Dunbar then calls attention to the number of military personnel in important positions around President Truman, including Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Russian Ambassador Walter Smith, and the military governor of US occupied Germany Lucius Clay.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-10-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection