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Originally Posted by rubicon
How would some describe say the Green Revolution going on now in Iran. clearly Irians rights are being violated. what has the UN done to right that wrong?
This same scenario can be applied to a number of countries present and past in Africa Middle East and elsewhere were ethnic cleansing has occured.
Rome fell in part because its armies became mercenaries and pledge their loyalities not to Rome but to the generals that paid them.
Technology has not made war obsolete only more efficient.
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Technology played a huge part in the Green Revoltion as well as in the Revolt in Egypt.
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The pay for the legions seemed to be a problem all throughout Roman history from the little reading I have done on Roman History. Have read a lot of fiction based on Roman historical events. You just have to look at the Year 69 A.D.-- the Year of the Four Emperors-- to get an idea of how important paying the Roman Army was. That was about 400 years before the traditional date of the Fall of the Roman Empire.