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22. 23. 2). Percentages for North Korea and Taiwan are not available. Andrew L. Ross, 'Militarization in the Third World', Table4, Armed Forces and Society, vol. 13, no. 4, summer, 1987, p. 571. Note that Brzoska and Ohlson (see note 15) treat Israel as a developing state. In addition to the recent Brzoska and Ohlson volume, cited in note 15, there are several well-documented studies of arms production facilities and MIST complexes in the developing world: Stephanie G. ), Defense Planning in Less Industrialized States (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1984); 'International Stratification and Third World Military Industries', International Organization, vol.
23. 2). Percentages for North Korea and Taiwan are not available. Andrew L. Ross, 'Militarization in the Third World', Table4, Armed Forces and Society, vol. 13, no. 4, summer, 1987, p. 571. Note that Brzoska and Ohlson (see note 15) treat Israel as a developing state. In addition to the recent Brzoska and Ohlson volume, cited in note 15, there are several well-documented studies of arms production facilities and MIST complexes in the developing world: Stephanie G. ), Defense Planning in Less Industrialized States (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1984); 'International Stratification and Third World Military Industries', International Organization, vol.
Alignments between a superpower and a client state further raise the stakes of a confrontation with a developing state, evidenced in the limits confronted by US policy makers both in the Korean and Vietnamese wars or by the Soviet Union in its dealings with Israel. Even attempts by a superpower to control directly the behaviour of a regional state, where the superpower opponent is absent or peripheral to a contest, is not without unacceptable cost and escalatory risks, measured not only in terms of expended military assets but also in terms of elite and public willingness to maintain an operation.