Armed Forces and Government: The Evolution of Civil/Military relations in developing countries

Military History, Civil /Military Relations. This is an academic text which discusses the importance of Civil Military relations paradigms in developing countries. It explores armed intervention in the domestic political process and looks at when and how this might occur. It uses as its case study the insurrection of April 1970 on the island of Trinidad and Tobago. The principal questions addressed in the book are whether a coup d'etat can be predicted and secondly how the political apparatus can determine when and how this will occur.