United States, Military, Political Science, National & International Security, Government 

Many commentators have pointed to an emerging civil-military “gap” in the United States. Former secretary of defence William Cohen declared that a “chasm” is opening between the military and the civilian worlds. Some claim that American’s armed forces and its civilians no longer share the same values and understanding of the role of the military. Others go so far as to suggest that the U.S military is becoming less willing to accept civilian’s direction.
Soldiers and Civilians analyze this civil-military divide. The book is based on the results of a survey of military officer, civilian leaders, and the members of the general public, conducted by the Triangle institute for security studies. The book contributors-leading scholars of civil-military relation, defense policy, and public opinion-consider the implications of the survey result. The contributors conclude that numerous schisms have undermined civil-military cooperation and harmed military effectiveness. They offer recommendation to eliminate or mitigate the most troubling of the problem.
Peter D Ferver is Associate professor of political science of Duke university and Director of Triangle institute for security studies, a research consortium of Duke, the university of North Carolina at chapel Hill, and North Carolina state university. Richard H. Kohn chairs the curriculum in peace, war, Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is professor of history.
"This is a superb, penetrating, comprehensive, balanced analysis. Peter Feaver and Richard Kohn highlight what they see as worrisome trends: the 'Republicanization' of the officer corps and the growing belief among officers that top military leaders should not just advise political leaders on military policy but should insist that political leaders adopt the right policy. Feaver and Kohn nonetheless put these trends in the broader context of changes in civilian society and argue that while there is no crisis, there is cause for concern. For years to come this book will be the indispensable starting point for debates on and further studies of American civil-military relations." -
 

Soldiers and Civilians analyzes the emerging civil-military "gap" in the United States, drawing on a major survey of military officers, civilian leaders, and the general public. The book's contributors, leading scholars of defense policy, find that numerous schisms have undermined civil-military cooperation and harmed military effectiveness. - from Amzon 

Introduction
The Gap between military and civilian in the united states in perspective……..P 1
By Feaver - Peter D and Richard H Kohn, and lindsay P Cohn

Part I The Growing Gap………………………………………………………………………………P 13
Chapter 1 Of Chasms and Convergences: Attitudes and……………………………….P 15
Beliefs of Civilians and Military Elites at the
Start of a New Millennium
By Ole R. Holsti
Chapter 2 Attitudes and Opinions Among Senior………………………………………P 101
Military Officers and a U.S. Cross-Section,
1998-99
By James A. Davis
Chapter 3 Uncertain Confidence: Civilian and Military………………………………P 129
Attitudes about Civil-Military Relations
By Paul Gronke and Peter D. Feaver
Chapter 4 Attitudes of Entry-Level Enlisted Personnel:………………………………P163
Pro-Military and Politically Mainstreamed
By David R. Segal, Peter Freedman-Doan, Jerald G.
Bachman, and Patrick M. O'Malley

Part II Changes in Civil-Military Gaps over Time………………………………………..P 213
Chapter 5 The American Civil-Military Cultural Gap:…………………………………..P 215
A Historical Perspective, Colonial Times to the Present
By Russell F. Weigley
Chapter 6 The Military's Presence in American Society,………………………………P 247
1950-2000
By James Burk
Chapter 7 Vanishing Veterans: The Decline of Military………………………………P 275
Experience in the U.S. Congress
By William T. Bianco and Jamie Markham
Chapter 8 Explaining the Gap: Vietnam, the……………………………………………….P 289
Republicanization of the South, and the End of the Mass Army
By Michael C. Desch
Part III Implications for Military Effectiveness and…………………………………….P 325
Civil-Military Cooperation
Chapter 9 Military Interests and Civilian Politics: The…………………………………P 327
Influence of the Civil-Military "Gap" on
Peacetime Military Policy
By Benjamin 0. Fordham
Chapter 10 Do Military Policies on Gender and Sexuality…………………………….P 361
Undermine Combat Effectiveness?
By Laura L. Miller and John Allen Williams
Chapter 11 Military Professionalism and Policymaking:……………………………….P 403
Is There a Civil-Military Gap at the Top? If So, Does it Matter?
By Peter J. Roman and David W. Tarr
Chapter 12 The Unequal Dialogue: The Theory and……………………………………..P 429
Reality of Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force
By Eliot A. Cohen
Chapter 13 Conclusion: The Gap and What It Means for………………………………P 459
American National Security
By Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn