Military, Non-US Legal Systems, Comparative Politics, Government 

In this carefully researched study Coy reexamines the notion of the military as an effective contributor to the process of political modernization in developing countries. Testing theories of civil-military relations against descriptions and analyses of events in Sierra Leone the author offers explanations that are original and that make this book a model micro-study.  

A striking political reality in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1960s was the substitution of military officers for civilians as rulers of a large group of countries. Why did this occur? How have the military regimes functioned? How have army officials interacted with civilian elites? Focusing on the West African state of Sierra Leone, Thomas Cox attempts to answer these and other significant questions. He uses such primary source materials as treason trial transcripts, minutes of civilian advisory board meetings, and interviews with key participants in civil-military relations. In this carefully researched study, Cox reexamines the notion of the military as an effective contributor to the process of political modernization in developing countries. - from Amzon 

Contents

1. Civil-Military Relations Theory and Sub-Saharan Africa………p. 1

2. Colonial Rule and the Sierra Leone Army……………………………p. 25
Background
The Organizational Status Quo
Political Transformation and the Sierra Leone Military

3. The Army under Sir Milton Margai………………………………….....p. 39
Role Continuity
Institutional Modifications
The Political Environment

4. Civilian Control of the Sierra Leone Military………………………..p. 57
Civilian-Military Linkages
New Directions in Sierra Leone Politics and Changing Patterns of Civilian Control

5. Disintegration of the Army Officer Corps……………………………....p. 79

6. Coup Plots and Corruption: The Waning Influence of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party………………………………………………………………….............................p. 93
The SLPP Turns Corrupt
The January Coup Plot
The Army and the General Elections

7. Coups and Countercoups: The Fall of the SLPP…………………......p. 113
The Lansana Coup
The Arrest of Lansana and the Formation of the National Reformation Council

8. The National Reformation Council Assumes Office……………....…p. 139
Musical Chairs
Legitimization

9. Opposition to the National Reformation Council. …………….…p. 157
The Alienation of the Intelligentsia Intra-Junta Fragmentation
Dissension in the Civil Service and the National Advisory Council

10. The NRC and the politics of Demilitarization. …………………......…p. 175
Reasons For and Against a Withdrawal
The Dove-Edwin Commission and the Civil Rule Committee
The Guineans Again
The officers Renew Their Feuds
Intervention to End Intervention-Sierra Leone Returns to Civilian Rule

11. Civil Military Relations under Siaka Stevens and the All People
Congress ………………………………………………………………….................p. 205