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Old 05-29-2022, 01:19 PM
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List of Roman emperors - Wikipedia

Our Founding Fathers were familiar with Greek and Roman history and could see that if a rotten emperor controlled the military he or she could stay in power but as soon as they lost that connection the military put in a new leader. It happened multiple times in some years.

Year of the Four Emperors - Wikipedia

Year of the Five Emperors - Wikipedia

Barracks emperor - Wikipedia

Our military leaders seem very careful not to get the Army, Navy, etc. involved in politics such as it would lead to so many civil wars like in Rome and sometimes in Ancient Greece.
And I worry about our current all-volunteer army. I would prefer that 20% of the military be drafted. I think that would give more stability to the military and lessen the chance of a US military takeover of government.