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Accession Number:
AD1013568
Title:
The Crisis Within: America's Military and the Struggle Between the Overseas and Guardian Paradigms
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Corporate Author:
RAND Corporation - Project Air Force Santa Monica United States
Report Date:
2016-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
73.0
Abstract:
Todays U.S. military is full of perplexing questions and issues. Individually, each can be explained, but collectively the explanations seem too complicated. This complexity makes the military difficult to comprehend, even to those in uniform. What follows is an attempt to unravel this complexity and to start a conversation about how to better understand Americas 21st-century military. To do that, a return to first principles is necessary, starting with how the nation understands the common defense and the role that organized violence plays in providing for it. The nations understanding of both the common defense and organized violence changed dramatically in the years since 2001. The diversification in the employment of violence produced a profound paradigm shift that Thomas Kuhns seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, helps to identify and explain. Americas senior civilian and military leaders must understand this shift in order to create the military the nation needs in the coming decades and to ensure that it is an institution the American people continue to trust.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
