Thanks for Your Service

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This important book provides data that is going to fuel a decade of civil-military scholarship. Peter Feaver is the lighthouse for all of us in the field and shows conclusively that our military needs to work harder to keep its feet out of the wolf trap of partisan politics if it is to remain broadly respected by Americans. * Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute * Peter Feaver is one of academe's most acute observers of American civil-military relations-and this book demonstrates both his scholarly rigor and his practical sense of how policy is actually made. A pathbreaking piece of scholarship. * Eliot A. Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS * This searching analysis of the sources and impacts of our public's regard for its military provides a hard-eyed, unsentimental examination of potential dangers ahead. With currency, clarity, and rigor into how and why the military holds public confidence, this masterwork will be the go-to book providing both warning and direction at a crucial point in our history. * General Jim Mattis, US Marines (ret.) and 26th Secretary of Defense * No one-and I mean no one-knows more about the relationship among the military, our elected civilian officials, and the general populace than Peter Feaver. An insightful, important, and timely work. * General Martin Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff * One of Feaver's greatest contributions in Thanks for Your Service is his replication data available through Harvard's dataverse...the contribution made by his important new book, subsequent generations of civil - military relations scholars should thank Professor Feaver for his service to the field. * Heidi A. Urben, Armed Forces & Society * Peter Feaver's latest book is a must-read for Army general officers and command sergeants major, as well as for students and faculty at the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy. And it's a should-read for every senior officer and NCO. The substance of the book is that important. * Lt. Gen. James Dubik, ARMY magazine * Thanks for Your Service does an excellent job of empirically explaining why the public has high confidence in the US Armed Forces. * Lieutenant Colonel James "Andy" Nichols, Parameters Bookshelf *