Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Preface; 1 The five 'D's of contemporary Nigerian civil-military thought; Defence; Development; Demobilisation; Demilitarisation; Democratisation; 2 Military clauses of the new Nigerian constitution; DraftConstitution (1976); Promulgated Constitution (1978); 3 Nigerian military and· social expenditures 1970-80; Concept of military extractive ratio (MER); Nigerian military spending since 1970; Nigerian social expenditures since 1970; Comparison of defence and social expenditures; Statistical appendices
4 On measuring the optimum military sizeConcept of military optimum size; 5 Civilian restoration and political stability; The anti-military coup debates; Process of return to civil rule; Civil rule a year after; The requisite of stability; Index