“Every death matters?”: combat casualties, role conception, and civilian control

How do combat missions, defined as an armed confrontation that causes casualties, shape civil-military relations and military’s role conception? This article argues that militaries that incur combat casualties gain a stronger hand in the civil-military equilibrium. This is because casualties affect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mukherjee, Anit
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170468