Can a retired army officer join politics?
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20 Citations | The assumption is that generals who served in the army for decades will not change their way of thinking and acting immediately upon entering politics. |
| Because retired military leaders retain their association with the active military and the military profession more generally, they are under an obligation to maintain the same distinctive nonpartisan ethic as the active force with regard to politics, policy, and the public domain in matters directly affecting U. S. military and national security policy. | |
Open access•Journal Article | Finally, the authors posit that active and public participation of retired military officers in partisan politics, in their capacity as retired military officers, should be discouraged as potentially damaging to the US armed forces in both material and philosophical ways. |
22 Citations | Retired military enlisted personnel are more likely than retired officers to find their choice of a second career to be fairly commensurate with their military work duties since officers rarely move into a high civilian managerial position. |
20 Citations | He views the penetration of retired officers into politics as ‘another non-formal mechanism of role expansion in Israel’. |
Open access•Journal Article 5 Citations | This becomes the foundation of our profession.2While accepting the necessity of U. S. Army soldiers' abstention from "public political involvement," or partisanship, this essay argues for more nuanced understanding of what it means to be political while serving in uniform and suggests that the current aversion to "politics," broadly conceived, creates a paradox that threatens the effectiveness of the Army in the decades to come. We conflate "political" and "partisan" at our Nation's peril. |
24 Citations | The article also suggests that an ethnically representative army may “tie up” capabilities in ways that reduce the likelihood of military intervention in politics or (ethnic) violence perpetrated by military personnel. |
Open access•Book 01 Jan 1979 81 Citations | In explaining the extraordinary stability in army-party relations in terms of overlapping interests rather than controlling mechanisms, Colton offers a major case study and a new model to students of comparative military politics. |
| It is at first striking that the only category of Army member lacking a coherent official or expressed ethic, or creed, is the commissioned Army leader. |