Military Assistance: Some Uniformities Among Donor - Recipient Relationships.

摘要

Economic, military, and political science all boast at least one basic theory. But concerning military assistance, the critical nexus between them, that theoretical structure that exists rests on normative assumptions and intuition. Within the general problem of developing a theoretical base for military assistance, an initial problem is to analyze the donor-recipient relationship to deduce from the experiences of history a set of uniformities that characterize successful military assistance. This paper addresses that problem by comparing the experiences of history and deducing such a set of uniformities. The problem of generality is addressed by applying the deduced set pro forma to random episodes of military assistance chosen from a population that excludes all but two of the episodes from which the set was deduced. The problem is to deduce and verify uniformities within the donor-recipient relationship that can be related to a successful use of military assistance. The general approach to the study is analytical. Research involves observations of historical data.