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THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF INDONESIA'S MILITARY REGIME ARE RULE BY A VIOLENT AND RUTHLESS MILITARY BUREAUCRACY THAT CONTROLS EVERY FACET OF LIFE, ITS FANATICAL HATRED FOR LEFT-WING IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL ISLAM, AND ITS DETERMINATION TO IMPOSE IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY ON THE ENTIRE POPULATION IN ORDER TO INSURE THE SURVIVAL OF MILITARISM.

IN THIS ARTICLE, THE AUTHORS TRY TO DEFINE THE GENERAL CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF CLASSICAL STRATEGIC THOUGHT IN ORDER TO ASSESS ITS RELEVANCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY STRATEGIC STUDIES. THE ARGUMENT BRINGS OUT THE FACT THAT CLASSICAL STRATEGIC SCHOLARS TENDED TO CONCEPTUALIZE STRATEGY AS THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONFLICTUAL ACTIONS BETWEEN UNITARY ACTORS, OMITTING BY THIS VERY FACT TO STUDY THE SOCIOPOLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICTS, THE IMPACT OF MILITARY TECHNOLOGY OR THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND DECISIONAL PROCESSES ON THE CONDUCT OF WAR. NEVERTHELESS, CLASSICAL STRATEGIC THOUGHT STILL OFFERS AN INVALUABLE BODY OF LITERATURE TO UNDERSTAND THE EVOLUTION OF IDEAS ON WAR, AND A POSSIBLE WAY OF ENRICHING STRATEGIC STUDIES THROUGH THE USE OF ITS DISTINCTIVE COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE EVENTS THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ACCELERATION IN THE MILITARIZATION OF THE CARIBBEAN AND PURSUES THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES: POINTS TO THE MANNER IN WHICH THE RESTRUCTURING OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE CARIBBEAN HAS PRODUCED AN IMMEDIATE AND UNPRECEDENTED INCREASE IN MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE SUBREGION; SHOWS HOW THE ORGANIZATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES AND BARBADOS HAVE BECOME INTEGRATED INTO THE NEW U.S. REGIONAL POLICY UNDER THE RUBIC OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM; AND RETRACES SOME KEY ASPECTS OF THE INTERNAL HISTORY OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES WHICH HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR INCREASING RELIANCE ON MILITARY SOLUTIONS TO SOCIOECONOMIC PROBLEMS.