“Every death matters?”: combat casualties, role conception, and civilian control

• Main Author: Mukherjee, Anit
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Civil-Military Relations; Civilian Control
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170468
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

How do combat missions, defined as an armed confrontation that causes casualties, shape civil-military relations and military’s role conception? This article argues that militaries that incur combat casualties gain a stronger hand in the civil-military equilibrium. This is because casualties affect...