2009

Third Generation Civil-Military Relations and the 'New Revolution in Military Affairs'

This paper identifies a new development in civil-military relations, which the author calls "third generation civil-military relations." According to him, such relations are a product of military organizations embarking on civil governance areas and the creation of higher level partnerships between military and civil agencies. Further, he takes as an example of third generation civil-military relations a US military-driven "holistic" civil police reform project in Afghanistan, the so called Focused District Development. Finally, he explains the political background of the concept before discussing the challenges to cooperation posed by third generation civil-military relations.

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