TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margiotta,Franklin D.
TI  - The Changing World of the American Military
SN  - 9781000243437
AV  - KF7250 .C436 2019 
U1  - 355.00973 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - United States.-Armed Forces
KW  - Military education-United States
KW  - Soldiers-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. A Current Assessment of Military Professionalism -- 1. The Soldier and the State in the 1970s -- 2. An Empirical Reassessment of Military Professionalism -- 3. The Military Profession and Its Task Environment: A Panel Study of Attitudes -- Part 2. International and Domestic Influences -- 4. Emerging Major Power Relationships: Implications for the U.S. Military in the Late Twentieth Century -- 5. The Impact of Domestic Politics on U.S. National Security Policy -- 6. Increasing Executive and Congressional Staff Capabilities in the National Security Arena -- 7. New Congressional Budgeting Procedures: An Initial Analysis of Effects on the Department of Defense -- 8. American Opinion on the Use of Military Force Abroad -- Part 3. Military Manpower Issues in a Changing Institution -- 9. Emerging Youth Attitudes and the Military -- 10. The Military and Higher Education: An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Future of ROTC -- 11. The Emergent Military: Calling, Profession, or Occupation? -- 12. The Military Family and the Changing Military Profession -- 13. Worker Representation in Military Organization -- 14. Military Unions -- Part 4. Organizational Dynamics and Change -- 15. Military Leadership: The Implications of Advanced Technology -- 16. Organization Challenge and Response by 1985 -- 17. The Military as a Bureaucracy: The Super Activity Trap -- Part 5. Developments at the Academies -- 18. Modernization and Growth at the Service Academies: Some Organizational Consequences -- 19. Making It at the Air Force Academy: Who Stays? Who Succeeds? -- 20. Who Goes to the United States Naval Academy? -- 21. Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Changes in Military Academy Cadets; Part 6. Prescriptions for the Future -- 22. The Future Demands of Military Professionalism: The Views of a Retired Navy Vice Admiral -- 23. The Future Demands of Military Professionalism: The Views of an Army Major -- 24. Education in the Military: A Look into the Future -- Part 7. A Summary Perspective -- 25. The Changing World of the American Military -- Selected Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index
N2  - This volume focuses on some of the major factors that shape the American military in the 1980s: a complex, interdependent international arena, a changing domestic political context, the imperatives of advanced technology, conflicting management orientations, and the emergence of new elites
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