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Learning About the Military.(Brief Article)
Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn, "The Gap: Soldiers, Civilians, and Their Mutual Misunderstanding," in The National Interest (Fall 2000), 1112 Sixteenth Street N.W. #540, Washington, D.C. 20036.
Feaver, a Duke University political scientist, and Kohn, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, surveyed 4,900 military officers, leading civilians, and the general public about foreign policy, morality, and the relations between military personnel and civilians.
Military officers, Feaver and Kohn found, were "much more conservative than the civilian elite, but not more conservative than the general public." Most officers are Republicans and are increasingly likely to state their political identification in talks with subordinates or in letters to the editor.
The military tends to have more Catholics and fewer Jews than the population at large, and rising officers tend to be well-educated white male Catholics. Officers tend to be more ...
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