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This monograph offers a neo-classically republican perspective on a
perennial problem of civilian/military relations: limitations on
military officers' obligation to obey civilian authorities. All
commentators agree that military officers are generally
obliged-morally, professionally, and legally-to obey civilian
orders, even as they agree that this rule of obedience has
exceptions. Commentators tend to differ, however, on the basis and
breadth of these exceptions. Following Samuel Huntington's classic
analysis in The Soldier and the State, Mr. Robert Atkinson shows
that disagreement about the breadth of the exceptions tends to
assume that their bases-moral, professional, and legal-are
incommensurable. This monograph suggests, to the contrary, that all
defensible exceptions to the rule of military obedience, like that
rule itself, derive from a single neo-classical, Huntingtonian
standard binding on civilian authorities and military officers
alike: the common good.
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