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Supreme Command.('Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations')(Book Review)

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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations, by Peter D. Feaver (Harvard, 381 pp., $49.95)

During the 1990s, a number of events suggested that all was not well with civil-military relations in America. The media played up stories about alleged sexual harassment in the military, about military attitudes toward Bill Clinton's fitness to serve as commander in chief, and about heated debates on the military's role in the post-Cold War world. There is no question that civil-military relations during the 1990s were contentious, characterized by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding. But why had things gotten so bad? Some believed the tensions were a ...

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