Policy analysis reveals mounting politicization pressures in United States armed forces leadership, highlighting the need to uphold nonpartisan professional norms.
Contemporary civil-military relations in the United States, characterized by determined efforts to politicize the armed forces, present new challenges to senior military leaders. These officials have a difficult balancing act today: remaining subordinate and responsive to civilian leaders’ lawful directives while upholding the military’s professional standards, values, and norms, especially the norm of nonpartisanship.
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