ABSTRACT
It would be fallacious to view the military and politics separately. Particularly in the developing countries the militaries are part and parcel of contemporary politics and cannot be divorced from it in theory, reality, or analysis.... (Ibid.: 1.)
Soldiers become nationally integrated when they became capable of recognising bonds of shared nationality and respect the rights of fellow citizens. Soldiers become absorbed into the system of authority when they learn to measure physical force according to legitimate need, when they recognise their place in the pattern of roles and functions within the social system, and learn to respect socially sanctioned frontiers of authority (1970: 12).
