The Conceptual Model: The Purpose of Military Forces -- Modelling Issues -- Northwest Africa -- West Africa -- Central Africa Case -- Southern Africa -- Eastern Africa -- The Middle East Case -- Determining the Extent of Military Overspending -- Appendix 1 -- National Development Tasks: Canadian Defence Structure Review of 1975 -- Appendix 2 -- United Nations Centre for Disarmament: Defence Expenditures Disaggregation Model -- Appendix 3 -- African Debtors to the Former Soviet Union -- Appendix 4 -- NATO Distribution of Defence Expenditures by Category: Average 1985-89 -- Appendix 5 -- Distribution of Canadian Military Personnel by Military Occupation Codes (MOCs) 1994 -- Appendix 6 -- Partial Correlation Analysis: Military Imports/Military Expenditures -- Appendix 7 -- Social and Socioeconomic Militarization: Praetorian and Spartan Indices (1990-94 Means) -- Appendix 8 -- Financial Militarization ME/GNP and ME/CGE -- Appendix 9 -- Military Capabilities (1996-97)