Making strategy: Civil-military relations after Iraq

Article Abstract:

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.

United Kingdom, Iraq, Political aspects, Military aspects, Strategic aspects, Civil-military relations

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Force, pre-emption and legitimacy

Article Abstract:

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.

Evaluation, Weapons of mass destruction, Legitimacy of governments, Government legitimacy, Preemption (Military doctrine), Unilateral nuclear disarmament

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