{"product_id":"choosing-your-battles-american-civilmilitary-relations-and-the-use-of-force-9780691124278","title":"Choosing Your Battles  American CivilMilitary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerica's debate over whether and how to invade Iraq clustered into civilian versus military camps. This book shows that this civilian-military argument - which has characterized earlier debates over Bosnia, Somalia, and Kosovo - is typical, not exceptional. It traces these themes through the first two years of the Iraq war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] highly statistical but thankfully lucid study... [The authors] find that non-veteran civilian elites are more likely to advocate the use of force than either military elites or civilian leaders with military experience... The pattern holds historically. The authors consider a total of 111 instances from 1816 to 1992.\"--Chronicle of Higher Education \"Feaver and Gelpi offer important insights into the character of civil-military relations in the U.S. and into its effects on the nature of U.S. foreign policy... [A]n important work whose findings have wide-ranging policy implications.\"--Spencer D. Bakich, Virginia Quarterly Review \"Feaver and Gelpi's intriguing and well-executed study provides a welcome contribution to scholarship in this area. In it, the authors address a subset of provocative issues within the broader study of American civil-military relations.\"--Risa A. Brooks, Review of Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES vii  PREFACE xi  CHAPTER ONE  Introduction 1  CHAPTER TWO  The Civil-Military Opinion Gap over the Use of Force 21  CHAPTER THREE  The Impact of Elite Veterans on American Decisions  to Use Force 64  CHAPTER FOUR  Casualty Sensitivity and Civil-Military Relations 95  CHAPTER FIVE  Exploring the Determinants of Casualty Sensitivity 149  CHAPTER SIX  Conclusion 184  REFERENCES 215  NAME INDEX 229  SUBJECT INDEX 233","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403739963735,"sku":"9780691124278","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691124278.jpg?v=1730484408","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/choosing-your-battles-american-civilmilitary-relations-and-the-use-of-force-9780691124278","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}