ABSTRACT
The new challenges coming from the Soviet threat which some policy analysts believed would take decades to thwart, left the US without a viable normative theory to guide the organization of the national security establishment so that it could at once ensure national survival without discarding the liberal democratic way of life. Samuel Huntington's objective control model was actually popular among military circles and part of the curriculum at military schools for many years. His objective control model was taught at the United States Military Academy and in ROTC instruction. Huntington coined his approach to civilian control of the military during the Cold War as, "objective control" because it centrally relied on the military itself to refrain from politics to retain professional objectivity by eschewing the often internecine struggle among political partisans.
