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The Military and Democratic Transition: Paradoxes of the Democratic Ethos

This article argues that existing attempts to define the democratic ethos fall short. The article examines different scholars’ definitions of the democratic ethos vis-a-vis the military, their positions on maintaining it, and the paradoxes inherent in these conceptions of the democratic ethos.

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Dr. Darrell Driver
Professor, Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations

Darrell Driver is a professor and codirector of the Advanced Strategic Arts Program at the U.S. Army War College. He previously served as the Director of the Army War College’s Regional Studies Program. Other prior positions include Deputy Director of Strategy, USEUCOM J5; Defense Policy Advisor to the U.S. Mission to NATO; and Strategic Planner, Chief of Staff U.S. Army. He is the author of the book Sparta in Babylon: Case Studies in the Public Philosophies of Soldiers and Civilians and a number of articles and book chapters on subjects related to civil-military relations and European Security. He was a 2009 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and an Academic Year 2015 Army War College Fellow, and he holds a BA from Notre Dame and a Masters and PhD in Political Science from Syracuse University.