Elements of the Militarisation of Behaviours

This chapter is devoted entirely to the process of the militarisation of behaviours. That process rests on several pillars (relating broadly to bureaucracy, propaganda, chronotopes, military language and culture, emergency legislation, surveillance, professionalisation, and militarisation in the public sphere of life). I aimed to showcase the complexity of the militarisation of behaviours and to place it in a theoretical framework. There are many tools of social control that state or non-state actors can use. However, when employing most or all of those mechanisms available from the toolbox of the militarisation of behaviours state officials can expect that, to a degree, behaviours will be militarised. When these instruments are employed, it might lead, with a high level of probability, to the emergence of organised crime, state organised corruption and state terror. At the same time, the militarisation of behaviours aims to create a level of uniformity in society, dependency on the state, and obedience. When people are exposed to that process, they tend to either develop coping mechanisms helping them to survive or become compliant.