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It Could Happen Here

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The Military Isn't Working Anymore

The military realizes that it can't function as a mass military in the model that nation states have done since the napoleonic wars, right? Which is like the mass recruitment of the citizen soldier. That sort of how war is fought between, you know, 18 ten and 19 70. And then it becomes clear that that's not going to work any more because the aims of the countries and the power of nationalism have become too abstracted. Fachism has done too much damage to that image. So the military turns into a sort of what it always was also, which is like a colonial policing force. In terms of the qustion of non violence, yes, ah, there

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