Medhat ullah’s Reviews > Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy > Status Update

Increased Militarization of Society: Defense over economic welfare
Labor and Employment
Corruption and Mismanagement
Trade and Foreign Relations

Whereas the conceptualization of “interstate war” depends in large part on what Wright has referred to as the “legal condition of war,” whether that sense of legality is explicit or implicit, the use of military force by a third party to intervene in or interfere with the course of an interstate or civil war in which it is not directly involved generally lacks this legal sense and is usually regarded an “intervention

Crony military capitalism influencing country growth

In his book Political Order in Changing Societies, the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington uses the term praetorian to designate social orders in which political participation is high relative to their political institutionalization.[3] A low ratio of institutionalization to participation, he argued, would then lead to political decay

Praetorianism means excessive or abusive political influence of the armed forces in a country. The word comes from the Roman Praetorian Guard, who became increasingly influential in the appointment of Roman emperors

Military personal or abusive,excess power in country economic system for the sake of their own stake

Author coined a term "milbus" for describing how military have become entrenched in country's politics & economic modes to influence their own venture & shit, the military is making shit money out of their defence budget and shitty things

Besides looking at the imbalance between military and civilian institutions, or the character of the society, as causes for spurring the armed forces into politics, the existing literature has also analysed the political economy of the military’s influence.

look into military praetorinaism

Why some militaries become key players in a country’s power politics is an issue that has puzzled many. Numerous authors have used various methodologies and paradigms to understand the military’s praetorianism