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The Soldier and the State
β Scribed by Samuel P Huntington
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 331 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Introduction: National Security and Civil-Military Relations; Part I: Military Institutions and the State: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives; Chapter 1. Officership as a Profession; Professionalism and the Military; The Concept of Profession; The Military Profession; Chapter 2. The Rise of the Military Profession in Western Society; A New Social Type; Mercenary and Aristocratic Officership; Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Institutions; Preprofessional Ideals: The Military Craft and the Natural Genius; The Origins of Professionalism.
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