There is so much information available in democracies if you have the time to work through it, that they are effectively protected just by the sheer amount of documentation an interested observer has to plough through.
Start with the annual budgets - they´re extremely informative as to what the real issues are.
https://www.ft.com/content/eef717f2-bb6e-11e8-8274-55b729265... https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units...
etc.
There is so much information available in democracies if you have the time to work through it, that they are effectively protected just by the sheer amount of documentation an interested observer has to plough through.
Start with the annual budgets - they´re extremely informative as to what the real issues are.