Lyons, Gene. "The New Civil-Military Relations." American Political Science Review 55 (March 1961): 53-60.

“Historically the character of civil-military relations in the United States has been dominated by the concept of civilian control of the military. This has largely been a response to the fear of praetorianism. As recently as 1949, for example, the first Hoover Commission asserted that one of the major reasons for strengthening the “means of exercising civilian control” over the defense establishment. … Despite this imposing support, the concept of civilian control of the military has little significance for contemporary problems of national security in the United States.”

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