Founders' Fears and American Civil‑Military Restraints

Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the state of civil-military relations as President Donald Trump remakes the senior leadership of the U.S. military and deploys the National Guard to U.S. cities. 

Mentioned on the Episode:

William Manchester, American Ceasar: Douglas McArthur, 1880-1964, Back Bay Books

Kori Schake, The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States, Polity

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https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/civil-military-relations-under-trump-kori-schake