The end of the Cold War in the late 1980s ushered in defence budget reductions within most global spheres of governance on defence. Parallel to this global fiscus trend is an increase in new military roles, mostly in the domains of developmental tasks, humanitarian operations and natural disaster relief. Topcu and Aras (2017: 453) affirm that with the end of Cold War, most countries became actively involved in the reduction of their military expenditures, downsizing their armed forces and converting some military industries to civilian production machineries. This observation attests to the popular view that in peacetime, governments develop many ploughshares from the swords of traditional forces by making them perform “a wide variety of tasks only marginally involving fighting and winning wars - the tasks commonly called in military jargon “Operations Other Than War” ” (OOTW) (Davis 1998: 33) or “military operations short of combat” (Smith 2003: xiv).