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Jiang claims the army and Nazi Party assumed power together; the Night of the Long Knives made them symbiotic, with the party ensuring domestic unity by suppression and the army conquering abroad.
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Army
Great conquerors succeed by building armies that are professional, meritocratic, and innovative.
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Robespierre created meritocracy partly because noble officers were a threat who might restore monarchy.
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Great conquerors succeed by building armies that are professional, meritocratic, and innovative.
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Because Joab controlled the army, Jiang argues David would have had to kill him if Joab truly acted independently against an honored guest; therefore Joab must have killed Abner on David's order.
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Jiang argues David killed Uriah because Uriah was a popular brave soldier with army loyalty and therefore could threaten David the same way David threatened Saul.
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Augustus becomes more powerful than a king by turning Egypt into personal property, using its wealth to pay a professional army, and binding soldiers directly to the emperor.
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The Gallic wars served three purposes in Jiang's account: money for debts and public feasts, a personally loyal army, and a Roman myth of Caesar as great conqueror.
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Caesar faces one man versus an entire empire, but he has a highly disciplined, personally devoted army and opponents divided by distrust of Pompey's growing power.
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"...popular as the socialists, okay? So what happens now is the army and the Nazi party get together and assume power, okay?"
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"...party is an extreme right -wing workers party, right? So the army orders Hitler to kill all their leaders and that's what happened. This..."
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"...to this new society. Obviously, the major threat is these foreign armies, the Prussians, the Austrians, the Spanish, who want to restore the Bourbon..."
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"And the generals didn't do that, even though they wanted to, because they were afraid that the soldiers would mutiny against them. Okay? So..."
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"...will pay taxes in order for me to pay my professional army. But these are professional soldiers. They are full -time soldiers at war...."
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"...be suspicious of Joab right because Joab has access to your army Abner is your enemy but Joab has access to your army so..."
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"had to kill Abner because he was ordered to by David right now why would David want Abner to be killed because in his..."
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"...Uriah killed why was Uriah killed yeah because the loyal the army is loyal to Uriah right so why would David fear Uriah because..."
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"...then after he killed Uriah he needed to explain to his army okay who loved Uriah why this happened and then David was like..."
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"...He used his money in order to... To have his own army. Before, the Roman army was loyal to the Senate. Now, because it..."
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"...major purpose of these wars is to create the world's greatest army. Remember, Rome is mainly at peace. At this time. And if they're..."
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"...this process, he created the most loyal and the most disciplined army in the world. And they're all loyal to him personally. Okay? Because..."
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