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Only the most able moving beyond politics in the selection of national security leaders

The nature of the threats facing America today has drastically reduced the margin for error in senior political appointments. In Only the Most Able, Stephen M. Duncan draws on a lifetime of military, public service, executive, and legal experience to critique the political appointment process, focus...

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Main Author: Duncan, Stephen M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc 2013
Subjects:
United States > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment
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Table of Contents:
  • The power to appoint civilian leaders
  • The professionalism of military leaders prior to 1972
  • Personnel is policy
  • Politics and unqualified civilian leaders
  • The professionalism of military leaders from 1972 to 9/11/2001
  • Civilian leaders who can get things done
  • Professionalism in the era of wars of a different kind
  • Trust and clashes of culture and competence
  • Politics in the middle of war
  • The "professionalization" of amateur appointees

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