The Soldier and the State Quotes

“It exalts obedience as the highest virtue of military men. The military ethic is thus pessimistic, collectivist, historically inclined, power-oriented, nationalistic, militaristic, pacifist, and instrumentalist in its view of the military profession. It is, in brief, realistic and conservative”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil–Military Relations