1. Portions of this chapter draw upon Shawn T. Cochran, “The Civil-Military Divide in Protracted Small War: An Alternative View of Military Leadership Preferences and War Termination,” Armed Forces & Society 40, no. 1 (2014).
2. Borrowed from Edward Feit, The Armed Bureaucrats: Military-Administrative Regimes and Political Development (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972).
3. Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957), 84.
4. Finer, The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics, 2nd enlarged ed., Peregrine Books (Baltimore: Penguin, 1976), 21–4.
5. See also Bengt Abrahamsson, Military Professionalism and Political Power (London: Sage Publications, 1972), 13, 17.