David Auerswald writes: “My latest book on civil-military relations, Overseen or Overlooked: Legislators, Armed Forces, and Democratic Accountability, was published in September with Stanford University Press. The book explores similarities and differences across the world’s democracies regarding the role of legislatures in overseeing the military. Most legislatures face capability and motivational impediments to conducting truly robust oversight. The U.S. Congress, in particular, suffers from the latter when a single party controls the executive and legislative branches, which is relevant to today’s debate over federalized National Guard deployments in U.S. cities.”
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