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The system broke down when they stopped trying to disperse immigrants across wide areas and directly integrate them into the social/military system. Instead th
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The system broke down when they stopped trying to disperse immigrants across wide areas and directly integrate them into the social/military system.
Instead they allowed them to settle as a group, maintain their own leadership and armies and just function basically as ‘vassals’ states of Rome and we know how that ended…
- gumby 3y agoBut that is nothing like how the US military operates so that’s irrelevant to jsq’s flawed analogy.
- dsq 3y agoI agree with you that the US military does not currently operate this way, but if the level of recruitment keeps falling (which is the article's title, after all), its not far off that the govt make a large scale citizenship for military/law endorcement service deal with poeple eager to enter. This is what Rome did.
- jjk166 3y agoOn the contrary, it was after the system began breaking down that the empire was no longer able to disperse the incoming tribes the way it had for centuries prior and needed them to behave as vassals due to the lack of means both to effectively impose leadership and to govern effectively. This coincides with a more general increase in the number and autonomy of provinces throughout the empire for similar reasons.