Soldiers and Politics.

Control , democracy , and the soldiers in Country B

Country B is a common case for weak states , wherein the government cannot exercise vertical control and society has weak horizontal forms of control also . The concepts of types of control , disintegration of democratic control , justification of military junta , and civil-military relations apply to Case B . Country B is a weak state because the country is politically divided , due to different ethnic groups that dominate different geographic locations of the country . This division disables them from creating a unified government that can manage the

state as a whole . It is also a weak state because its vertical democratic form of control has disintegrated . In a vertical type of control , there are parliamentary and government controls of the military (Caforio , 2006 br

.159 . Vertical control is executed through budget control legislation , micromanagement , appointment of generals , parliamentary questions , and use of army 's countervailing powers (Caforio , 2006 br

.159 . In this case , vertical control has lost its power , when its measures were no longer effective or applied

The government requested for this military junta , because it cannot use the traditional democratic controls to restore peace and and to pursue economic development . Huntington argued that there are three cases wherein soldiers are justified to not follow their civilian leaders and the ones that applies here is when the inappropriateness of political s to military professionalism (Caforio , 2006 ,

.160 . The political s to assert a central government at first became problematic and chaotic , and...