Dan Maurer’s essay argues that a complete scrutiny of norm-breaking and “crises” within strategic-level American civil-military relationships ought to consider more than the impact of the breach or the value of the actor’s apparent justification for transgression. Rather, considering how an actor understood the norm, and whether he or she accepted it before breaching it,… Continue reading Paved with Good Intentions?: Civil-Military Norms, Breaches, and Why Mindset Matters