That tradition has frayed, and civil-military relations need to be repaired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iraq Study Group Report] Reference

Restoring the civil-military balance is a priority at the Defense Department.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Iraq War Year Six: Our Long Goodbye to the Cold War] Reference

Last year, my friend Dana and I wrote one of these for civil-military dialogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 Days and Still Thanking Jesus] Reference

A civil-military operations staff officer may also be assigned to such a task force.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 7-98 Appendix D - Related Operations]

She is a former military officer and a top legal expert on civil-military relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron Belkin: Marine Commandant Defies White House on Gay Troops] Reference

The integrated U.S. civil-military plan for Afghanistan was released on August 10th.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Three Cups of Teabaggers: Insight from the Right on Afghanistan] Reference

Progressives must not allow conservatives to continually define the civil-military debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Boomers: The Iraq War and Your Second Chance to Save our Democracy] Reference

Acknowledge the crisis in civil-military relations and the progressives 'part in making it so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Boomers: The Iraq War and Your Second Chance to Save our Democracy] Reference

The past few years have brought the biggest crisis in civil-military relations in a generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwards' Full Speech: "Not Hard Power. Not Soft Power. Smart Power."] Reference

Show that you know the cardinal rule of civil-military relations: Civilians are in charge of policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Boomers: The Iraq War and Your Second Chance to Save our Democracy] Reference

Abrams served for four years, integrating civil-military efforts to pacify and reconstruct the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Jaws of Victory] Reference

In Afghanistan, we do not have in place a nationwide, civil-military campaign plan to defeat the insurgency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan Will Be a Quagmire for al Qaeda] Reference

I would also set up a new civil-military agency patterned after the Office of Strategic Services in World War II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Roston: Time To Take The 24 DVDs Off The Straight Talk Express?] Reference

This, as we see from looking back at the past few decades, is essential for healthy civil-military relations today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Have Flexible Armed Forces] Reference

His first book practically invented the field of civil-military relations; his last was on demographics and culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam Huntington, 1927–2008] Reference

I think we're seeing the early stages of a populationcentric, comprehensive, civil-military, counterinsurgency effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Petraeus: 'We're doing everything we can to achieve progress'] Reference

Meanwhile, the political fallout from the floods is threatening a weak government and a fragile civil-military balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jayshree Bajoria: The Costs of Pakistan's Floods] Reference

So far it has taken six months to produce integrated civil-military plans for six of Afghanistan's provincial districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paving the way for a civilian surge in Afghanistan] Reference

SCHNEIDER: "Dr. Strangelove," John Edwards 'favorite movie, reveals the candidate's interest in civil-military relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2007] Reference

In terms of civil-military relations and racial and gender representation, the DOD has achieved stated policy objectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY BOOI DURING THE DEFENCE BUDGET VOTE 22] Reference

Both of these principles are at odds with the American practice of civil-military relations, and with the historical record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Generals Almost Cost Us Iraq] Reference

Pakistanis are increasingly uniting in their disapproval of Mr. Musharraf, and of the civil-military oligarchy he represents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan Is Turning on Musharraf] Reference

OKE: The annual senior leaders seminar also discussed issues of terrorism, civil-military relations and democratic governance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2006] Reference

How American citizens relate to and communicate with their military is known by the egghead-ish term "civil-military relations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: John Edwards: Busting Conservative Myths about the Military] Reference

And General David Richards has pushed for a re-examination of civil-military command relationships to create a more workable set-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

The White Paper set out important principles for civil-military relations and for the organizational structure of defence management.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY CDE N DIALE P DURING THE DEBATE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS] Reference

My friend Ike Wilson, who is an officer and a professor at West Point, always enlightens me on the topic of civil-military relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Why Oscar is a Patriot] Reference

She was demonized by the civil-military oligarchy that has virtually run Pakistan since 1958, the year of Pakistan's first military coup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bhutto's Legacy] Reference

Government for the flood disaster will be funneled through these groups, operating in the required manner of "civil-military co-operation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nimmi Gowrinathan: Disaster Politics: The American Reaction to Pakistan's Floods] Reference

This debate is relevant to all Americans, since its outcome has implications for both national security policy and civil-military relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Have Flexible Armed Forces] Reference

"It keeps getting more prominent, more central," said Peter Feaver, a Duke University political scientist who studies civil-military relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Generals Wage Politics] Reference

It should be obvious that such active opposition to a president's policy poses a threat to the health of the civil-military balance in a republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Generals Almost Cost Us Iraq] Reference

The best bet for Pakistan and its friends abroad would be a liberal-secular civil-military alliance that leads to a stable and moderate government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musharraf in the Middle] Reference

The AKP's resounding parliamentary election victory, followed by the election of Abdullah Gül to the presidency, has heightened civil-military tensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyprus Sabotage] Reference

We'd held, 15 days earlier, an Afghan civil society conference with international NGOs and the UN agencies that accepted participating in civil-military activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Just Military] Reference

These troops and the Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team, a civil-military partnership, use their Commander's Emergency Response Program Funds to improve Afghans 'lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Negotiate With the Taliban] Reference

Although the conventional narrative about the Iraq war is wrong, its persistence has contributed to the most serious crisis in civil-military relations since the Civil War.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Generals Almost Cost Us Iraq] Reference