Q: When none of the ties in my environment is active military, how is the influence of military sabotage exerted?

A: Many ways. Summary:

1. Modern military maintains active IT & chin relationships. They enforce the right to demand or threaten a turn over/replacement for any individual.This is used in practice to create whatever evil policy they wish for at some rate of advancing pro grease.

2. Everything is spied on & sometimes MITM edited via a host of IoT & backdoor access methods. Taking steps to stop the spy capability brings elevated harassment/focus

3. EE kill attacks terrorism has been made pervasive, along with spying, in most manufactured objects and now in features of the natural world like trees and bushes.

4. Work & social interaction & commerce with true independents or critics/dissidents is blackballed & leads to turn overs (the military mafia philosophy is that all interaction with outsiders is actually cold war, not cooperation. They work to create a world where their living members dominate & adopt that view.