Military professionalism in a democracy / Thomas-Durell Young -- Legislatures and national defense : global comparisons / Jeanne Kinney Giraldo -- Ministries of defense and democratic control / Thomas C. Bruneau and Richard B. Goetze, Jr. -- Strategy formulation and national defense : peace, war, and the past as prologue / Douglas Porch -- The spectrum of roles and missions of the armed forces / Paul Shemella -- Reforming intelligence : the challenge of control in new democracies / Thomas C. Bruneau and Kenneth R. Dombroski -- Defense budgets, democratic civilian control, and effective governance / Jeanne Kinney Giraldo -- Conscription or the all-volunteer force : recruitment in a democratic society / Edwin R. Micewski -- Professional military education in democracies / Karen Guttieri -- Conclusion / Thomas C. Bruneau and Scott D. Tollefson.