Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Usage -- Prologue -- Part One On Military Politics -- The military as a key political institution -- Part Two The Military Tradition in The Ottoman Empire -- The Military Seal -- Part Three The Influence of the Military Tradition upon the Young Turks -- The politicization of the officer corps -- From the military's intervention to its role as the political ruling group -- The military as the political ruling group -- Epilogue- Continuity of the military seal from Empire to nation-state -- Select Bibliography -- Index.