 He describes the effect of four ideologies (liberalism, fascism, Marxism, conservatism) on military professionalism and civilian control.Chapter five analyzes the military professional in the German and Japanese societies where it became dominant as militarism.He states that, "no country has had a wider variety of experiences in civil-military relations than modern Germany", with its officer corps achieving unmatched "high standards of professionalism" and then being "completely prostituted" under Nazism.