ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which officer training, as carried out through expert-counterpart relationships, influences values. It examines the impact of officer training, including the expert-counterpart relationship, on attitudes toward civilian control of the military. Contemporary civil-military relations and the role of the alien expert are marked more by what Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom deem direct field control and spontaneous field control. The expert-counterpart relationship and civilian control over the military should also be considered from the perspective of military "profesionalism." In the military context, an officer attends command schools or staff colleges, works with expatriate advisers, participates in regular maneuvers and exercises, competes for promotion, and seeks to enhance his technological competence. Expertise better equips them to seize control; corporateness leads to strong group identity and cohesion, social responsibility might in fact lead the military to conceive of itself- as the guarantor of the entire political system.
