POL101Y1 Lecture : CIVIL MILITARY RELATIONS
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Civil military relations and democracy dec 6th 2010. Problem of the guardians: democracies still live in a world of states, from feudal to mass armies, draft versus professional armies( for most of europe, mass armies involve the draft) If you fail to field an army you r isk your states existence. Story of the modern state: the raising of citizen armies. When you have a professional army you are much more likely to go to war because in a draft army the politicians are less likely to take us to war. Under a democracy it is more of a rarity to go to war. Objective model: largely the one we live with today. A clear separation between citizens and military, there commitment is to obey what the citizens www. notesolution. com say they are professionalized. They obey and they fight and you want them to be good at this.
