Distinctions between control of the military and control of militarization

What is it about?

A revised conceptualization of civilian control is offered that distinguishes between two modes of civilian control over military affairs: control of the military, which concerns itself primarily with the military organization, and control of militarization, which draws on the political discourse in which the citizenry plays an active and autonomous role, aimed at subjecting the decision to use force to a deliberative process that addresses its legitimacy.

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