ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the level of ideological discourse, it aspires to bring in the social mediations that make this discourse fully intelligible and to locate it within the overall process of implanting the new system of domination. It shows that the ideological aspects of the new military regimes can not only provide a more complete picture of this type of domination but shed light on the specific behavior of major social actors. “National security” is the principle invoked by military regimes at the moment of the rupture with the prevailing political system. The term national security defines the problems of survival and maintenance of sovereignty that every national state must confront. The exclusively military origin of national security doctrine yields certain important traits. National security doctrine’s role as the key element in this ideology reflects the armed forces’ dominance in the government and the particularized and privatized aspect of national security doctrine.
