“Samuel Huntington, Professionalism, and Self-Policing in the US Army Officer Corps”

Drawing on Samuel P. Huntington’s three phases of self-regulation used to determine if an occupation qualifies as a profession, this article focuses on the third phase of policing and removing those who fail to uphold the standards set forth in the first two phases. It reviews how the Army implemented this phase following the Civil War through the post–Vietnam War years and the implications for the officer corps.



Read the article: https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol51/iss3/9/

Keywords: Civil War, officer corps, Samuel P. Huntington, three phases of self-regulation, post–Vietnam War