I did specifically note that it's okay if your country doesn't have a military, as long as your country has an ally with a military. I guess I should add if th

I did specifically note that it's okay if your country doesn't have a military, as long as your country has an ally with a military. I guess I should add if there's absolutely no threat then you also don't need a military - but that's a rare situation. "Countries Without Militaries" by Kathy Gilsinan (Nov 11, 2014) at https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/countries-without-militaries/382606/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/co... specifically discusses the case of Costa Rica: "After 7,000 U.S. servicemembers deployed to the country in 2010 to assist in counter-narcotics efforts, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Costa Rica did have an army: the United States military." Indeed, that articles notes a lot of the complexities when you dive in. The vast majority of countries have obvious militaries, and of the rest, "Virtually all the countries the CIA lists as having no formal militaries have some form of security service, and the degree to which they focus exclusively on internal threats varies". If there's absolutely no threat then you don't need a military, but for the vast majority of countries, that is not reality.