Examples of civilian control of the military in the following topics:
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- A commander-in-chief is the person exercising supreme command authority of a nation's military forces; in the US, this person is the president.
- Often, a given country's commander-in-chief need not be or have been a commissioned officer or even a veteran, and it is by this legal statute that civilian control of the military is realized in states where it is constitutionally required.
- Civilian control of the military is a doctrine in military and political science that places ultimate responsibility for a country's strategic decision-making in the hands of the civilian political leadership, rather than professional military officers.
- The amount of military detail handled by the President in wartime has varied dramatically.
- Truman believed in a high amount of civilian leadership of the military, making many tactical and policy decisions based on the recommendations of his advisors— including the decision to use nuclear weapons on Japan, to commit American forces in the Korean War, and to terminate Douglas MacArthur from his command.
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- Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
- The United States has a strong tradition of civilian control of the military.
- The President is the overall head of the military.
- The President helps form military policy with the United States Department of Defense.
- The U.S. military is one of the largest militaries in terms of the number of personnel.
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- Some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
- Most suggest that some 75 million people died in the war, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians.
- Many of the civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
- The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths.
- The latter resulted in the destruction of more than 160 cities and the death of more than 600,000 German civilians.
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- The Cold War also institutionalized a global commitment to huge, permanent peacetime military-industrial complexes and large-scale military funding of science.
- Following the Cold War, Russia cut military spending dramatically, and the adjustment was wrenching, as the military-industrial sector had previously employed one of every five Soviet adults and its dismantling left hundreds of millions throughout the former Soviet Union unemployed.
- The breakdown of state control in a number of areas formerly ruled by Communist governments has produced new civil and ethnic conflicts, particularly in the former Yugoslavia.
- Moreover, during many decades of nuclear-weapons production and testing, exposure to radiation above normal background levels occurred to scientists, technicians, military personnel, civilians, and animals.
- Several significant radiation-related accidents occurred at military and civilian nuclear reactors and facilities, causing direct fatalities, as well as involuntary occupational and public exposures.
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- World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in absolute terms of total dead.
- However, the distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and collateral damage is not always clear cut.
- The largest portion of military dead were 5.7 million ethnic Russians, followed by 1.3 million ethnic Ukrainians.
- The latter resulted in the destruction of more than 160 cities and the death of more than 600,000 German civilians.
- Summarize the final ledger of military and civilian deaths of World War II.
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- The Dirty War, also known as
the Process of National Reorganization, was the name used by the Argentina
Military Government for a period of state terrorism in Argentina from roughly
1974 to 1983.
- Meanwhile, leftist guerrillas accounted for 6,000 casualties
among military and police forces as well as civilians.
- After taking
control, Peronism was outlawed.
- The extreme left
bombed and destroyed numerous military and police buildings in its campaign
against the government during this time, but unfortunately a number of civilian
and non-governmental buildings were targeted as well.
- In 1975, Isabel signed a number
of decrees empowering the military and the police to step up efforts to destroy
left-wing subversion, particularly the ERP.
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- The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office for Emergency Management on August 28, 1941 to control prices (and thus inflation) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.
- Meanwhile, the civilian standard of living was about level.
- Automobile factories stopped manufacturing civilian models by early February 1942 and converted to producing tanks, aircraft, weapons, and other military products, with the United States government as the only customer.
- Greater wartime production created millions of new jobs, while the draft reduced the number of young men available for civilian jobs.
- At the same time many agricultural commodities were in greater demand by the military and for the civilian populations of Allies.
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- Air WACs served in a large variety of jobs, including aerial photo interpretation, air traffic control, and weather forecasting.
- They were the first women to fly American military aircraft.
- By the end of World War II, 85% of the enlisted personnel assigned to Headquarters U.S.
- In 1941 the first civilian women were hired by the Coast Guard to serve in secretarial and clerical positions.
- U.S. women also performed many kinds of non-military service in organizations such as the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), American Red Cross, and the United Service Organizations (USO).
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- In both cases, the Johnson administration, wanting to prevent the rise to power of another Fidel Castro in the western hemisphere, chose to provide military support to one side of the conflict.
- The military regime that replaced Goulart would last until 1985, when Tancredo Neves would be indirectly elected the first civilian president of Brazil since the 1960 elections.
- Opposition groups, known as Loyalists, launched a military coup d'état in 1963, effectively negating the 1962 elections by installing a civilian junta dominated by former members of the Trujillo regime and headed by Donald Reid Cabral, an American-educated businessman.
- All civilian advisers had recommended against immediate intervention, hoping that the Loyalist side could bring an end to the civil war on their own.
- Further manipulation from U.S. military operations consolidated the Loyalist control of the government.
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- National security is the protection of the state through a variety of means that include military might, economic power, and diplomacy.
- National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
- The Department—headed by the Secretary of Defense—has three subordinate military departments: the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
- The Department of Homeland Security, established after the September 11, 2001 attacks, is responsible for working within the civilian sphere to protect the country from and respond to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters.
- It is responsible for providing national security intelligence assessments, performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, to senior U.S. policymakers.