ABSTRACT
The garrison state hypothesis was first published about a quarter of a century ago. The simplest version of the garrison state hypothesis is that the arena of world politics is moving toward the domination of specialists on violence. The garrison state construct proposes a model in which the sequence marches from the relatively mixed elite pattern of the nineteenth century to military-police dominance in the impending future. The garrison state construct obviously belongs primarily to the third and fourth of the intellectual tasks, since it deals directly with trend and projection. The garrison state hypothesis is put forward as a matter-of-fact statement of expectation. A recurring ground for hope of world unity and peace among advocates of a voluntarily unified world community is the destructiveness of contemporary weapons. Hence the precondition of the garrison state outcome is likely to be fulfilled.
