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Is there a significant relationship between military structure & political liberalization? If so, can military structure & organization be manipulated to influence the process of democratization for the purpose of enhancing interstate peace? To test the implications of these questions, I will investigate a decidedly contentious premise. Military factors traditionally considered destabilizing in the international environment (to include large, well-trained armed forces organized for offensive or out-of-country operations) have, at critical junctions in the Western experience, had a distinctly positive impact on the emergence & maintenance of the liberal democratic state. If this is indeed the case, & liberal democracy can be shown structurally & normatively to produce interstate peace, then the preferred policy of peace-desiring states should be to promote & implement military reform at home & abroad that most efficiently generates democratic structures & values, regardless of intuitive fears of international instability. In short, I will argue that if liberal democratic states do not go to war with each other, then the size, proficiency, & strength of their military forces should not be a security dilemma issue. 1 Table, 1 Figure, 165 References. Adapted from the source document.