Military service provides unique education and experience opportunities not readily available elsewhere, a key selling point for...
Carrie Lee
Carrie A. Lee is an associate professor at the U.S. Army War College, where she serves as the chair of the Department of National Security and Strategy and co-director of the USAWC Center on Civil-Military Relations. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a B.S. from MIT.
A new academic year brings a new lineup of speakers to the U.S. Army War College’s Civil-Military...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Despite a stunning victory over...
What a society accepts as normal changes over time. As it does, inevitably the military organizations that...
It's time for another episode in our special series supporting the U.S. Army War College’s Civil-Military Relations Center....
Civilian control of the military is a foundational concept of democracy in the United States. In recent...
Max Margulies is in the studio with guest host Carrie Lee for the fifth episode in our...
The U.S. Department of Defense underwent several significant changes in 1973. First, the law that empowered the...
It's not odd for discussions about civil-military relations to focus on the civilian control exercised by the...
The U.S. military is to a certain extent a microcosm of the population it serves. While this...
Joint. The term is used ubiquitously in the U.S. Department of Defense. Joint operations, joint professional military...
The U.S. Army War College Civil-Military Relations Center hosted its inaugural conference in May 2023. This year’s...
The final episode of our three-part series on Afghanistan looks at rebuilding trust in the civil-military relationship....
The civil-military relationship in the United States is a complicated one, and it is continually evolving. The...
Dating back to 1987 and the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the National Security Strategy (NSS) has become perhaps the...