The first three chapters raise initial concerns about using private violence in place of state militaries.
Moreover, a penchant for intervention in the economy cannot be used to explain the military's enthusiasm for industrial promotion.
Her assessment of the growing tensions with the army, especially around the military's control and misuse of international assistance following the earthquake of 1976 is also informative.
In ancient days militaries were necessary.
The only exception remained the military's link with petroleum, which throughout remained a critical source of funding for the military's projects in the oil boom of the 1970s and 1980s.
Both phases reflected the intransigence of defeated militaries, and both entailed the kind of suffering for civilian populations which we can barely appreciate, sixty-odd years on.
The most important contribution of the work, then, is that elected civilian regimes have to adhere to democratic norms and standards if they are to maintain control over their militaries.
Political intrusion compounded the military's woes.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries politicians, engineers, business communities and militaries incessantly pushed infrastructure projects to forge polities, economies and societies, or to prepare for war.
In fact, this literature rests on a structural-functionalist foundation according to which change in the army can be explained in terms of the military's adaptation and responsiveness to social pressures.
The military's goal was to prevent the growing polarization between youth educated in secular and religious schools by retaining children from "traditional" backgrounds in the secular-track school system.
However, the failure of the military's coup attempt in 1991 and the attempt to wrest power in 1992 meant that new avenues for political legitimacy had to be found.
The military's war machine was woefully defective.
I am thinking in terms of the military's access to communications and transport and its inbuilt facilities for the supply of medicine and food.
Of the 483 independent would-be candidates only 55 received the military's permission to stand.
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