How is this similar to what we see in America today? There is no question that the power dynamics in the United States are different than they were in the time of the late Roman Republic. Fortunately for us the military has always been more loyal to the president than its commanders. Loyalty is so ingrained in our soldiers DNA that it would be hard to image any deviation from that course. Commanders have occasionally defied presidents, most notably in the case of Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, but these were the rarest of events in our country’s history.
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