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Defence models uncovered: how to understand the defence style of a country

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  • Glen Grant
  • Vladimir Milenski

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This paper describes four different styles, or models, of defence organisation that can be found worldwide. The framework outlined in the paper has been designed to help politicians, diplomats and officials understand better their own system so they can improve it, or to understand the system of others so they can produce better interoperability. The four styles (or models) suggested are mutually exclusive as each has defining factors that mark them out from the other three. The models are rational focusing upon warfighting; emotional, the antithesis of rationality where choices of the day dominate; politically dominant, where a political solution is chosen for the country such as conscription; and militarily dominant, where the whole defence system is controlled by the military with no proper civilian oversight. Each model is hard to sustain and most countries tend towards one style being dominant with elements of the others.

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  • Glen Grant & Vladimir Milenski, 2019. "Defence models uncovered: how to understand the defence style of a country," Defense & Security Analysis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(1), pages 82-94, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdanxx:v:35:y:2019:i:1:p:82-94
    DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2019.1565669
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    1. Marcus Mietzner, 2023. "Democracy and Military Oversight in Crisis: The Failed Civilianisation of Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence," Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, , vol. 10(1), pages 7-23, April.

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