Introduction -- Who has confidence in the military?: Confidence in the military over time and today -- Confidence and the gaps: knowledge, education, media, and social contact -- Why do people have confidence in the military?: Comparing public confidence across the military and other institutions -- Performance, professional ethics and public confidence in the military -- Politics, politicization, public confidence -- Social desirability bias: a slient prop undergirding public confidence in the military -- Why confidence in the military matters: Whether and how confidence shapes concrete support for raising and maintaining the military -- Whether and how confidence shapes views on the military as an instrument of foreign policy -- Whether and how confidence shapes intangible benefits enjoyed by the military - Conclusion.
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