Explaining the rise and fall of military regimes: Civil-military relations in the Congo

摘要

The primary argument of this article is that the disintegration of the military is a function of circumstances generated within civil-military relations. This argument seems to undermine Samuel Huntington's military subordination through either subjective or objective controls. In looking at the Congolese situation, this analysis relies on Morris Janowitz's idea of a Politicized military corps to understand the rise and fall of General Mobutu Sese Seko.