Open AccessGUNS BEFORE POLITICS
Author(s) -
P.L. Moorcroft
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria south african journal of military studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/8-2-783
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , politics , government (linguistics) , intervention (counseling) , political science , political economy , law , sociology , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , psychiatry
'What we must stop is a situation where the gun is a means of promotion, a machine gun a way of applying pressure, a tank becomes government policy.' This was the despairing cry of an African lawyer during yet another recent military intervention in that most coup-ridden of African states, Dahomey
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