Making strategy: Civil-military relations after Iraq
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The experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan reveal the inefficiency in strategy formation of both the United States and Britain, by which the lack of clarity in civil-military relations results in a subordination of the armed forces to civil or political control. A revised system of civil-military relations, leading to policy-formation taking into account the military capability, is needed to formulate strategy suitable to the norms of the liberal democratic governments of the US and Britain.
Publication Name: Survival
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0039-6338
Year: 2006
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Force, pre-emption and legitimacy
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Debates on military force focus on the interrelated questions of pre-emption and unilateralism. For pre-emption, the realities of WMD are such that the meaningful right to self-defence does not require absorbing a first blow. At early stage of WMD development, the problem with pre-emption is not legality but operational difficulty.
Publication Name: Survival
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0039-6338
Year: 2003
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