ABSTRACT
Any consideration of the political control of military force involves a great many questions. They also include questions of what sort of political force the military is, what happens to civilian-military relations as a result of technological changes in warfare and all that goes with it, and what can be done to get the military, the civilian governments, and the people at large into some sort of effective relationship. In peace it gives the military the kind of veto over policy which every arm of government would wish to possess but rarely does. It is unwise to assume, however, that this must automatically be accompanied by a similar increase in control over policy. The limiting case is that of nuclear weapons. Broadly speaking, there are two universal dimensions of change which will affect all powers: the development of political relationships between the major powers, and the development of technology in weapons and the other systems which constitute military force.
