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The Art of War

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Military Class

For about two and a half thousand years, there has been the idea of a military classad it often coincided with an aristocracy. The military were the people who had been rewarded for their service to a originally people like char by being given great estates on which they could maintain themselves. By the fourteenth and fifteenth century, these te these these lords, had simply broken loose from all serious connection with justice and with order. And the whole of europe was degenerating and deteriorating into a lawless, bilico anarchic society.

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