THE MILITARIES’ PLACE AND ROLE IN NEW DEMOCRACIES
THE MILITARIES’ PLACE AND ROLE IN NEW DEMOCRACIES

Summary/Abstract: According to the definitions given by the reference dictionaries, military is the total of a state’s military forces, or, in a more nuanced form, a state’s total of the military units and its services. They often use the armed forces term, as there are implied synonymic relations between these two terms. The use of the both terms in the specialty literature, in mass-media and even in the official papers associated with different contents, more or less nuanced, create a conceptual confusion, misinterpretations, including on establishing roles, missions, and also competences and responsibilities. According to our analysis, the above-mentioned phenomenon is met in the countries which proposed and act in order to become a sovereign state, according to the western democracy model. The conceptual indeterminacy refer to establishing the types of military forces, their organization and endowment with weaponry and fighting technologies, to the relations between them, to the missions they can accomplish and the way the legality of their activity is legally fundamented. It is our intention to present some of the conclusions resulted from the comparative analysis of some interesting aspects regarding militaries from new democracies or from the traditional ones and the Romanian one.

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