What
is Militarisation?
- Militarisation
is "an extension of military
influence to civilian spheres, including
economic and socio-political life" (Marek
Thee).
- Militarisation
is "direct military intervention
in the people's lives and behaviour (arrests,
relocations, indiscriminate warfare, etc.)
or indirect structural involvement in
political and economic affairs (increasing
military expenditures at the expense of
civilian needs, military-oriented
industries, a reliance on military force
in internal and external political
affairs, etc). Militarisation will then
denote the spread of military values (discipline
and conformity, centralisation of
authority, the predominance of
hierarchical structures, etc.) into the
mainstream of national economic and socio-political
life" (Jim Zwick).
- Militarisation
"manifested itself through the
largeness of resources allocated for arms
and the development of sophisticated new
weapons" in the advanced
capitalist countries.
- Militarisation
is "expressed not only in
increased defence spending but also in
the greater role assumed by the military
in civilian affairs in order to control
the dissenters and critics of the
existing rulers; to suppress trade
unionists, peasants and student
activists; and to silence intellectuals
through coercive measures".
- Militarisation
is "a system of thought and
attitudes that places military
institutions above civilian decision
making processes".
- Militarisation
is "the general deterioration of
human rights".
- Militarisation
is a process, which results in militarism.
Militarism "includes such
symptoms as a rush to armaments, the
growing role of the military in national
and international affairs, the use of
force as an instrument of prevalence and
political power, and the increasing
influence of the military in civilian
affairs" (Marek Thee).
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