Civil-military relations

“The supremacy of the civil over the military is fundamental to the American system of government, and is wholeheartedly accepted by every officer and soldier in the military establishment.” General MacArthur wrote these words in his book Reminiscences, after he had been relieved from his command in Korea in 1951. Military subordination in civil-military relations would be uncontested in contemporary scholarly discussions, if his statement would have a perpetual validity. Civilian control of the military is the attempt of societies to find a solution to a paradox: Armed forces are created as masters of violence to protect the society against foreign threats, but because of its capacity for violence, this institution can likewise overthrow…

This way they would not need to copy the user data, and the database structure becomes tidier. There are many ways for Database normalisation to minimise data redundancy by not repeating the same groups in single tables, having all items in a table that is related to the primary key and a separate table for related information. Normalization can help create attributes that don’t repeat data and relationships between tables. We can avoid data redundancy by organising and producing unique fields…

A database object in a relational database is a data structure used to either store or reference data. The most common object that people interact with is the table. Other objects are indexes, stored procedures, sequences, views and many more. When a database object is created, a new object type cannot be created because all the various object types created are restricted by the very nature, or source code, of the relational database model being used, such as Oracle, SQL Server or Access. What…

teachers and one student, when you want a teacher row to be deleted if it’s a corresponding row is deleted in the student table. if cascade is not being use then an error will be raised for the referential integrity. What is a referential integrity? It is a property of a data which requires every value of one attribute of a table to exist as a value of another attribute in a different table. Referential integrity is a database that makes sure that the relationships between the tables remain…

The normal theory of civil-military relations contends that politicians should declare a military operation’s objective and then step aside leaving the business of war to the military. In his book, “Supreme Command,” Eliot Cohen deviates from this normalcy theory by arguing that active statesmen make the best wartime leaders, pushing their military subordinates to succeed where they might have failed if left on their own. According to Cohen civilian intervention at both strategic and operational…

Two Hands on the Sword: Civil-Military Relations From the outset, U.S. civil-military relations have constituted an agreement between the American people, the civilian government, and the armed forces. According to Frank G. Hoffman (2008), it is the civil hand that determines when to draw the sword from its scabbard and provides the policy to guide its use. Hoffman further explains that it is the military that sharpens the sword and wields it in combat (2008). Given this relationship, it is…

It is arguable that, throughout its history, military influence in Peruvian society has been very significant due, mainly, for the many years of military government. After Independence, the military had governed Peru for 110 years of the 195, of the 74 presidents, 51 were military. The armed forces had participated in Peruvian politics, among other ways, through military coups, co-managing the government with a president-elect, encouraging militarist policies in non-military areas, fulfilling…

Senior military leaders should not publically criticize under any circumstances. There are opportunities for military leaders to disagree with civilian leaders and resign if they feel compelled to do so. Military leaders have an obligation to provide sound military advice to civilian leaders. Military leaders should disagree if they believe a policy is flawed but must carry out that policy without engaging the public if it is not changed (Owens, 79). Officers that opt to engage the public…

Trust – An Argumentative Essay on Civilian-Military Relations The history of civilian-military relations is riddled with developments that are both positive and negative in nature. However, one has to determine whether these instances have left a progressive relationship as an overarching theme of trust as it continues to change among the social landscape in our modern-day American society. The Armed Forces Journal “The Silent Crisis” explains that there is indeed a problem between civilian and…

The Army Profession and Challenges in the Civilian-Military Relations The United States Army is arguably the most powerful Army in the world. Its endurance from the Cold War era to current unconventional conflicts of the modern day has proven its resiliency. The United States Army is undoubtedly a profession, and the leaders in the United States Army have critical and important role, ADRP1 defined and described the Army Profession and the Army Ethic as “Army Profession – A unique vocation of…