Why the militarization of society? Breakdown of organic social order to start. Consider: Always, it would seem, the onset of widening perceptions of breakdown or corruption in the nonmilitary areas of life is followed by the enhanced position of the military... ... ...we live in an epoch of decline of authority, of profoundly diminished confidence in political and social structures, not to mention political and social leaders, and everything we have learned from comparative history tells us that such a period is ripe for both war and for military dominance. - Robert Nisbet, Twilight of Authority, 1975
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