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The usual answer is legitimacy. The military can't seize power, if it's not loyal to its commanders. If people serve in the military due to personal loyalty and
by jltsiren 2y ago
The usual answer is legitimacy. The military can't seize power, if it's not loyal to its commanders. If people serve in the military due to personal loyalty and the promise of glory and loot, the military is a threat to the society. But institutions can create other purposes to serve, and then military commanders only have power if their actions are consistent with those purposes.
- ffgjgf1 2y agoBut there wasn’t any clear boundary between the civil and military power. If we must discuss it in these terms “the military” had seized the power from the very beginning of the empire and never let it go.