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Description of  Mobilizing Force: Linking Security Threats, Militarization, and Civilian Control

A book that will expand understanding of how, why, and to what end states will respond to threats. Major James D. Corless, ther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & Spacepower "Mobilizing Force helps to demonstrate that the relationship between 'threat' and democratic control of the military is complexand subject to both contestation and manipulation. It is a significant step forward in our understanding of the role of the public in concepts of control."Lindsay Cohn, US Naval War College What leads a democratic government to use military force to counter a domestic or external threat? How does it legitimize this mobilization to its citizenry? And what is the significance for civilian control of the military? The authors of Read more