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To preserve the appearance that their meddling is benign, senior military officers probably know that they cannot afford to install another general as president.
That is the strategy the military adopted in 1988, following the mysterious plane crash that killed former President (and General) Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.
In addition, the military’s role as guarantor of stability, and its tight control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, the army’s crown jewels, will continue.
Sharif would fulminate against her every misstep, threats of attack from religious radicals would continue, and the military would safeguard its interests from just off stage.
The military will, under any scenario, continue to quell fears of complete political chaos.
This is a unique framework for profound transatlantic political consultation and effective military cooperation.
With its economic, military, and demographic heft – China generates considerable unease in Russia.
Furthermore, Russia’s economic and military power has been in decline, whereas China’s has exploded.
Anxiety over China’s conventional military superiority probably motivated, at least partly, Russia’s 2009 announcement of a new military doctrine explicitly reserving the right to first use of nuclear weapons – a stance that resembles America’s Cold War force posture, aimed at deterring superior conventional Soviet forces in Europe.
These imbalances suggest that Russia would resist a tight military alliance with China, even as the two countries pursue mutually beneficial tactical diplomatic coordination.
This led some to support the Algerian government's military crackdown after Islamists won the first round of 1991 legislative elections.
The Russian Threat Runs Out of FuelBRUSSELS – For Europe, the defining event of 2014 was Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
But history suggests a simpler explanation: A decade of steadily rising oil prices had emboldened Russia, leaving it ready to seize any opportunity to deploy its military power.
Burgeoning oil wealth bolstered the regime’s credibility – not least by enabling a significant increase in military spending – and rising economic and military strength gave the Soviet Union’s geriatric leadership a rejuvenated sense of invulnerability.
When oil prices rise, Russia expresses its latent resentments more aggressively, often employing its military.
Yet diplomats and military professionals in Asia and beyond were certainly watching closely.
The official joint statement released by the two governments described India as a “Major Defense Partner” of the United States, eligible for advanced technologies with military applications.
China’s rise has created a strong incentive for countries with a stake in Asia to increase their cooperation with the US, as well as with one another, to ensure that they can stand up to China’s political, military, and economic might.
One can also predict increased cooperation between the two countries’ military and intelligence establishments.
Asia’s Military RevolutionSEOUL – A vast revolution in military affairs is taking place across East Asia.
The latest signs are Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purge of General Xu Caihou, an ex-Politburo member and former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, on charges of corruption, and Japan’s “reinterpretation” of Article 9 of its constitution to permit the country to provide military aid to its allies.
By contrast, military lobbying now deeply influences foreign and defense policies – witness China’s double-digit increase in defense spending and rising US arms sales in the region.
Though weakened economically, the US remains a military superpower.
In 1939, the Cambridge University economist Claude Guillebaud published The Economic Recovery of Germany, which argued that the German economy was quite robust and would not collapse from overstrain or overheating in the event of a military conflict.
Indeed, the military, the bulwark of Mubarak’s regime, is now in charge in Egypt, and has been repressing, jailing, and killing protesters who dare to stand up.
And, if the military loosens the reins, the Muslim Brotherhood could take over and form its own authoritarian, non-representative regime.
That is why people have continued to fill Tahrir Square whenever the military has tried to consolidate its power and suppress dissent.
Unfortunately, it is not the people who are trying to change their country’s future, but the Egyptian military and the same politicians who ruled Egypt under the previous regime.
More important, the US and the international community can work to ensure that the bulk of the funds go not to the military and to business-as-usual politicians, but to grassroots causes and groups.
This would force the military and the elites to work together with opposition groups that they often attempt to sideline.
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