This book examines the veracity of longstanding
claims that military leaders develop a coherent
public ideology that is, first, distinct from those
of their parent society and, second, that this
belief system is predictably conservative in
character. In the American case, these claims depict
self-selected and socialized military leaders as
sharing in a conservative "military mind" that
remains isolated from the mainstream of the American
liberal tradition. Using a combination of Q-method
public values sorting exercises followed by semi-
structured, in-depth interviews, these...