ABSTRACT
This unprecedented emergence of a half-dozen books in 1962 and the continued growth of literature on the subject of civilmilitary relations in developing nations in the decade of the 1960s was the result of a confluence of several trends. These included increasing interest among scholars in the politics of development, greater visibility and frequency of military intervention in the politics of new nations, a reevaluation by political theorists of the status of the military in civil society in the West, and a sub
stantial commitment by the United States government to military support of armies and governments of new and developing nations. These trends were interrelated and mutually reinforcing; all four had their origins in the two post-World War II phenomena of de colonization and the cold war. Increased scholarly interest in Asia and Africa followed on the heels of the departing colonial officers, while in Latin America and the Middle East attention was attracted by the rapid and often violent changes occurring in politi cal structures and processes. Study was facilitated by the greater volume of communications, rapidity of transportation, and gen erosity of Western universities, foundations, and government research agencies that followed the war years.
