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The soldier-emperor as double-edged sword. The quality of 3rd-Century #Roman emperors appointed but the Army was generally not very good. Yet Diocletian saved the empire with his hard-nosed authoritarian reforms. Incidentally the USA now has its second president in a row with no military experience, which had not happened since the period after Teddy Roosevelt and up through FDR; arguably the first wave of globalism after the Panama Canal and before postwar Pax Americana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_military_service
