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Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide

What Each Side Must Know About the Other-and About Itself

By (author) Bruce Fleming
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc, Dulles, United States
Published: 31st Oct 2010
Dimensions: w 150mm h 230mm d 24mm
Weight: 636g
ISBN-10: 1597974285
ISBN-13: 9781597974288
Barcode No: 9781597974288
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Synopsis
Civilians and military personnel do not have a clear view of each other in the United States today. Conspiring against such understanding are the norms and traditions of the two cultures. On the one hand, the military is considered to like its secrecy and think of itself as morally superior to the civilians it is meant to serve. On the other hand, civilians praise or blame the armed forces based on political exigencies and generally without true comprehension of their culture. And their mutual misperceptions seem greater now than in the late 1960s and early 1970s during the Vietnam War. Yet, as U.S. Naval Academy professor Bruce Fleming points out, the military is linked to the civilian world so fundamentally that all of us pay the price if they do not develop an appreciation of one another-but that is achievable only if each side also strives to see itself clearly. As the military fulfills its mission of protecting Americans and their way of life, civilians must also do their part and support the military through budget allocations, legislation, and enlistment. Without this shared commitment, American interests suffer as a whole. Fleming shows how to close a military-civilian gap that yawns so large in twenty-first-century America that it potentially threatens national security and essential freedoms.

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