ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a comprehensive theory of military privatization. It discusses the five major arguments, first two related to military authorization and the final three related to military supply. The five arguments are the risk-prevention argument, the compensation argument, the governance argument, the punishment argument and the control argument. These five arguments establish the central role of public actors in the authorization and supply of military force. The mantra of the Middleman State: the business of government is not to provide services, but to see to it that is provided. The book also represents a strong challenge to the Middleman mantra. The author insisted that, in order for a government to properly see to it that services are provided in war, the government must provide some of these services itself. In some cases, the business of government is to provide services.
