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I believe the latter was key and democratization of the armed forced was at least one reason the dictators (Julius etc) were able to maintain loyalty of their t
by cloverich 7mo ago
I believe the latter was key and democratization of the armed forced was at least one reason the dictators (Julius etc) were able to maintain loyalty of their troops as they eliminated the republic as such. Im not super well read here though.
Higher level, Fukuyamas political order series does a great deep dive into these kinds of topics, really blew my mind, and made many archaic seeming political structures make far more intuitive sense to me afterwards.
- senkora 7mo agoI’ll have to give those a read. For others, I’ve linked their wiki pages below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Political_Order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Political_Order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Order_and_Political_Decay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Order_and_Political_...
- duxup 7mo agoYeah once a given senator commanded AND paid the local full time legions for a given region, their loyalty followed. By that time too the men serving in the legions were increasingly locals and not Roman or even from Italy.