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America's Praetorian Guard

Jack D. Douglas / LewRockwell.com:
Professional armies have traditionally been far more disciplined, especially under the stress of longer-run warfare. BUT that does not mean they have no turning points or breaking points. In Rome the professional, imperial guard, The Praetorian Guard, was highly disciplined and bore casualties well in the early years. But over the decades of imperial struggles and military in-breeding common to such armies largely cut off from the civil population, they became bored with routine, self-centered, arrogant, puffed up with their own importance, and started deposing and imposing emperors, forcing them to put more and more of the national wealth into the military and so on. The professional military became a tyrannical force no civilians could control, so it controlled them through their imposed emperors.

Posted by Editor at July 3, 2009 07:32 AM