Howard J. Wiarda

Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National War College (eBook, ePUB)

A Clash of Cultures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., is the apex of the American system of military Professional Military Education (PME) Schools. The War College has trained such leading foreign policy specialists as former National Security Director Brent Scowcroft, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and current National Security Director James Jones.

Yet, despite its prestige, not all is right at the College. There is a festering conflict between the military brass who run the school and the civilian academics who teach there. The curriculum is outdated, the courses are old-fashioned, and the college failed completely to prepare a new generation of military leaders for guerilla terrorism, a-symmetrical warfare of the kind we are now facing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and democracy-promotion and national building.

In Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National War College: A Clash of Cultures, Howard J. Wiarda uses his first-hand experience to examine the conflict between the two cultures, military and civilian, that coexist uneasily at the College. He also explores the issues-tenure, academic freedom, research, teaching-that divide them. While this study focuses on the National War College, what Wiarda has to say about the tensions and "clash of culture" applies to all PME schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739150870
• Artikelnr.: 38220177

Autorenporträt

Howard J. Wiarda is Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations at the University of Georgia and author of Think Tanks and Foreign Policy: The Foreign Policy Research Institute and Presidential Politics, Harvard and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA): Foreign Policy Research Center and Incubator of Presidential Advisors, and Conservative Brain Trust: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the American Enterprise Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Geography and History
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Command Structure and Organization
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: The National War College Program
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Students and Faculty
Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Traveling for NWC-and for Myself
Chapter 7 Chapter 6: The Military Mind
Chapter 8 Chapter 7: The Academic Mind
Chapter 9 Conclusion