Armed Forces and Democracy: Reforming Civil-Military Relations

Issue Date October 1995
Volume 6
Issue 4
Page Numbers 9-17
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About the Author

Samuel P. Huntington was Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. His many books include The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991) and The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996).

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