Review article
Military Profession, Corporative Orientations and the Transformation of Civil-Military Relations
Tomislav SMERIĆ
Abstract
Based on the discussion of the models of military profession
and corporatism, the paper attempts to indicate a
hypothetical framework for the understanding of officer corps
professionalization and forming of its corporative orientation
in the Croatian war and post-war context. The paper also
points out the specific qualities of the process of
professionalization (war and normative-value context,
situational and subsequential professionalization character,
organizational restructuring and "civilianization" impacts) as
well as the officer corps corporate orientation forming
process (trends of "routinization"). Increasing military
professionalism and the officer corps dominant corporative
orientation change contribute to the creation of the structural
premises for the change of the "subjective" model of civilian
control of the armed forces, which, if unchanged, may
become an obstacle for the achievement of defense and
societal imperatives in the post-war conditions.
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Hrčak ID:
19734
URI
Publication date:
28.2.2002.
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