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Past Event
Seminar

Interservice Rivalry and Civilian Control

Open to the Public

Is rivalry between uniformed military services harmful or beneficial in achieving healthy civil-military relations in the United States? This seminar will explore early-stage work that is part of an effort to fit the widely-recognized phenomenon of interservice rivalry into a more general theory of U.S. civil-military relations.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Keel plate laid for USS United States, 18 April 1949. The carrier was cancelled on 23 April 1949.

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Is rivalry between uniformed military services harmful or beneficial in achieving healthy civil-military relations in the United States? This seminar will explore early-stage work that is part of an effort to fit the widely-recognized phenomenon of interservice rivalry into a more general theory of U.S. civil-military relations. The speaker will discuss the case of the 1949 "Revolt of the Admirals," in which underlying tension over the unification of the military services and the future of U.S strategic doctrine erupted into a highly publicized feud between the Navy and the Air Force, nominally over funding for weapons systems. She will also discuss the beginnings of a theoretical framework that draws on existing literatures in U.S. civil-military relations, bureaucratic politics, and organizational economics.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.