Mapping Evolving Internal Roles of the Armed Forces

Schnabel, Albrecht; Krupanski, Marc

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“…79 Using the armed forces may also prevent the militarization of the police. 80 One could differentiate between tasks, as a larger role for the armed forces in crimefighting would most likely be less controversial than for public order management. 81 The next, concluding, section, will show how this discussion is relevant to the topic of liberal democracy.…”

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Under Pressure: Security and Stability Related Challenges for Liberal Democracy in North-western Europe

Vark

2021

Democracy and Security

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Liberal democracy in the world is under pressure. This article will specifically look at security and stability related challenges for liberal democracy in a specific region, namely North-western Europe. As will be shown, three distinct security and stability related challenges put pressure on liberal democracy in this region. Firstly, the struggle by states to provide security for their citizens in an era where the blurring of internal and external security leads to "new" security threats. Secondly, the decline of social cohesion in society, causing unrest and instability. Thirdly, the undermining of liberal democracy by the state. As will be shown, these challenges have an impact on the organizations working in the security domain as well, in particular the armed forces and the police. Paradoxically, efforts by governments to counter the security and stability related challenges could eventually lead to a declining stability of liberal democracy.

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Under Pressure: Security and Stability Related Challenges for Liberal Democracy in North-western Europe

Vark

2021

Democracy and Security

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“…Traditionally, military involvement in internal security other than war appears as a departure from the status quo; as a result, it has generated much controversy. Schnabel and Krupanski (2012) and Stephen (2010) are of the view that the use of military in internal security, counter insurgency, or anti militant operations is not out of place. Stephen (2010) argues that while law enforcement (internal security) is not a traditional core skill of military training; however, military forces on deployment often undertake such duties.…”

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“…(cited in Mallick, 2007, p. 68)It is essential to note that using the military for internal security is not peculiar to Nigeria. For instance, Schnabel and Krupanski (2012) observes that the European countries, the United States, Spain, Canada, and Belgium, have all experienced the use of the military in internal security operations. Where the problem lies is the lack of professionalism and perceived excessiveness of soldiers in internal security operations.…”

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Building Security through Insecurity: The Nigerian Military and Counter-Violence Campaigns in the Fourth Republic

Joshua

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2020

Armed Forces & Society

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Since independence on October 1, 1960, Nigeria has been a victim, at one time or the other, of intra-ethnic, inter-ethnic, religious, and communal conflicts which have undermined the human security of her citizens. Nigeria’s corporate existence had also been threatened by 3 years (1967–1970) civil war which impacted negatively on the well-being of its people. In addition, the inability of the Nigerian Police to cope with the magnitude of the surge of violence in recent years has brought about the idea of involving the military, a core component of traditional security apparatus to deal with internal insecurity. This article is anchored on human security paradigm with reliance on secondary data to analyze the operations of the Nigerian Military in counterviolence campaigns between 1999 and 2017. This article points out that the involvement of the military in internal security has worsened the problem of insecurity due to the military’s unprofessional approach and, at times, deliberate targeting the civilian populace which it is supposed to protect. It, therefore, recommends among others, the need for the Federal Government of Nigeria to urgently review the role of the armed forces in addressing internal security situations in a way that will bring about respect for the rule of engagement in internal security operations and adherence to global best practices.

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“…En este contexto, las propuestas más recientes de incorporar a los militares argentinos en tareas contraterroristas han sido movilizadas por un dato de indudable fortaleza empírica: que la mayoría de las naciones desarrolladas consideran al terrorismo como una hipótesis de conflicto militar (Schnabel y Krupanski, 2012;Brooke-Holland, 2017;Dworkin, 2016;Renard, 2017). Esta valoración estratégica, inaugurada tras los atentados del 9/11, se acentuó en los últimos años.…”

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Fuerzas Armadas y contraterrorismo. Apuntes para renovar un “debate crónico” en la Argentina

Poczynok

2020

Rev. relac. int. estrateg . segur .

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En este trabajo es abordado el debate acerca de la asignación de funciones contraterroristas a las Fuerzas Armadas argentinas, desde una serie de interrogantes que han sido poco explorados en la literatura local. A partir de la posibilidad de considerar el terrorismo como una agresión externa, nos preguntamos: ¿Qué tipo de operaciones podrían desarrollar los militares argentinos en función de los intereses estratégico-militares de su nación? ¿Bajo qué supuestos de empleo? ¿Hasta qué punto la experiencia contraterrorista de las Potencias Centrales puede servir de parámetro para el caso argentino? Estas preguntas deben tener como punto de partida el posicionamiento estratégico defensivo que ha mantenido la Argentina durante la mayor parte de su historia, condición que ha sido ratificada recientemente en la última Directiva de Política de Defensa Nacional y según la cual el país no desarrollará intervenciones militares ofensivas fuera de sus espacios soberanos. En relación a esta premisa, este trabajo explora qué tipo de misiones contraterroristas defensivas desarrollan las Fuerzas Armadas de las Potencias Centrales, con el fin de detectar cuáles de estas podrían contribuir al fortalecimiento de las capacidades de anticipación y respuesta de Argentina ante este tipo de agresiones.

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Mapping Evolving Internal Roles of the Armed Forces

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Under Pressure: Security and Stability Related Challenges for Liberal Democracy in North-western Europe

Under Pressure: Security and Stability Related Challenges for Liberal Democracy in North-western Europe

Building Security through Insecurity: The Nigerian Military and Counter-Violence Campaigns in the Fourth Republic

Fuerzas Armadas y contraterrorismo. Apuntes para renovar un “debate crónico” en la Argentina

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