Civilian Control, Good Advice, and Service Mangement

ISBN-13: 9783639092608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str.

Kristina Handy

Opis

What are the effects of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 on U.S. civil-military relations? In a before and after case study comparison, change in civil-military relations as a result of the Goldwater-Nichols legislation will be analyzed in three issue areas, a) resource allocation, b) operations, and c) personnel policy.The results of the analysis show that there were observable improve­ments in the three measures of civil-military relations with the enact­ment of the legislation. The enhancement of civil-military relations was mitigated, however, by a number of factors and was highly dependent on the type of issue through which civilians and the military interacted (whether personnel, operations or resource allocation). The research was able to isolate civil-military relations by issue type to determine in­dependent effects of the GNA legislation.

O autorze

Kristina Handy received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the
University of Maryland, College Park in 2005. She is currently a
Senior Scientist at Human Resources Research Organization in
Alexandria, Virgina.