2021
DOI: 10.1177/0095327x20988556
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Janowitz and Huntington—Better Together: A Response

Abstract: Suzanne Nielsen and Hugh Liebert recently published “The Continuing Relevance of Morris Janowitz’s The Professional Soldier for the Education of Officers” in which they argued that officer education is too enamored with Samuel Huntington’s aging theory of civil–military relations from Soldier and the State. Huntington’s ideal of objective control grants senior military advisors autonomy within their professional sphere, and it best ensures that unvarnished military expertise survives politically charged nation… Show more

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“…As a second substantive area of disagreement, Huntington and Janowitz did not agree on the centrality of “republican virtue” or “political virtue” to the military officer’s identity, as the commentary claims (Coletta & Crosbie, 2021, p. 2, 5). It is misleading to speak of “the joint Huntington-Janowitz standard of political virtue,” as the commentary does (Coletta & Crosbie, 2021, p. 5). The terms “republican virtue” and “political virtue” do not appear in Huntington’s The Soldier and the State .…”
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“…As a second substantive area of disagreement, Huntington and Janowitz did not agree on the centrality of “republican virtue” or “political virtue” to the military officer’s identity, as the commentary claims (Coletta & Crosbie, 2021, p. 2, 5). It is misleading to speak of “the joint Huntington-Janowitz standard of political virtue,” as the commentary does (Coletta & Crosbie, 2021, p. 5). The terms “republican virtue” and “political virtue” do not appear in Huntington’s The Soldier and the State .…”
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“…The commentary’s embrace of the idea that political awareness is important against only a subcategory of strategic challenges is evident in the authors’ assertion that pragmatists in the US armed forces may be helpful against terrorists, but the US needs absolutists to address the challenges of great power competition (Coletta & Crosbie, 2021, p. 3). We disagree.…”
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