Civil-military relations

Stewardship of the Army Profession and Civilian-Military Relations There are five core characteristics that compose the Army profession; trust, honorable service, military expertise, stewardship, and esprit de corps (Army Doctrine Reference Publication (ADRP) 1, The Army Profession, 2015, p. 6-1). While all are critical to maintaining a healthy Army, stewardship, as described in ADRP 1 chapter 6, is the central tenant I believe keeps the other four alive. Stewardship is the act of taking care…

world they are infiltrating. As noted in the preface of FM 3-24, “this publication is not a stand-alone reference” (7). In the following, I will apply and plug the aforementioned into an astute analysis of Venezuela’s culture, geography, weather and civil consideration. Firstly, before we explore the culture…

A military intervention is seen as a set of tools and forms coercion of the conflicting parties to preserve or establish peace between them with the use of special forces, equipped with by means of armed struggle. The essence of military intervention lies in the effectiveness of violent impact on the conflicting parties. The effect of coercion of conflicting parties to establish peace with the military element is achieved by the application or threat of material damage, thus limiting their…

conduit between the military and the American public. While it is a critical subset of the population, the military represents only roughly 1 percent of the entire U.S. population, which creates a potential contextual gap between the military and civilians. Many civilians today do not know anyone who serves and may feel disconnected because they do not understand the military’s purpose, activities and meaning in their own lives. For them, the media offers their only exposure to military…

Too much investment on high technology can lead to failure to invest in other necessities such as military training, military police and linguists (37). Linguists are needed as a way to communicate with people of countries where a power has military presence such as the United States in Afghanistan. Hard power used in cyber information can do damage to physical targets in another country destroying the soft power that cyber…

There has also been a detrimental issue in terms of military personnel and skills, while one of the main issues that have been effected is the ability to offer surveilance on one area or another which is a crucial factor in terms of security and overall foreign policy. Firstly, the issue of costs in relation to foreign policy must be considered. Due to the implementation of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy the costs associated with the US military…

Yuan was from a landed military family of Xiangcheng in Henan province.” Yuan Shikai was adopted by a general who was childless, this later started his first job as a military man. After this, in 1866 his place of residence changed and his adopted father, Yuan Tu-ch’en. They moved to Shantung so Shikai could start a career in imperial civil service. This however, was not the plan that Shikai liked because he was much more found of…

guard) a gun-missile-radar system (Air Defense Force). The ADF mounted sixty Soviet SA-6 SAMs on track vehicles as tactical launcher, sixteen provided mobile launching platforms for fifty French-manufactured Crotale SAMs. With the advancement of its military, cooperation with the United States to develop an advanced Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) system for assimilation of data to engage targets simultaneously has been vital to anti-air operations. Egyptian Air…

The next cause of the Somali Civil War is the prevalence of clans in Somalia. The role of clans in Somalia is an important social unit in Somalia just as it is in the rest of Africa. Upon saying that, there is a lot of division that goes into the formation of these clans despite the fact Somalia is very homogenous and the population is 99% Somalian (Terdman 2008, 12). Due to this, the vast majority of its citizens share both a common language and a common culture. (Woods 1997, 1) Still, clans…

rewriting of history, seen by Jack Granatstein as a way to de-politicize emphasis on social history and restore the place of military history in education. This focus of Confederation and military history, in particular the World Wars has not been without its critics. One of the foremost was the Canadian Historical Association and its concern that the weight on military history obstructs social history expressing progressive causes. These concerns were also shared by Ian McKay, whom argues…