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| Never Over 'Over There' When U.S. Goes To War By Mark Steyn |
| 2011-03-29 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 R. LEO: known as (ahem) "colonia" |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-03-29 16:28 |
| #8 Roman Soldiers enlisted for 20 yrs. At retirement many found themselves at the ass end of the earth. They married a local, settled down as shop keepers and started roman towns. This provided a trained and ready reserve force for the local legions. Just like Londinium. |
| Posted by: Retired LEO 2011-03-29 16:15 |
| #7 That's republican/early empire period, P2k. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-29 14:29 |
| #6 And what did the Romans ever do for you, other than the roads, the aquaducts, law, medicine... A good reason to have kept the legions busy, other than such projects paying dividends outside of military applications, is that sitting around on your ass for too long makes it tough to get off of the lectus when need be. Yes, even the appearance of US Military for Hire is bad. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-03-29 10:38 |
| #5 ...today they call it nation building. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-29 10:11 |
| #4 That's why they were building walls and roads - things to keep them busy, when the locals didn't provide them sport. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-29 10:08 |
| #3 That's wrong P2K. The rulers of Rome learned not to put legions in the field because they feared triumphant generals above anything else. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-29 09:51 |
| #2 The rulers in Rome learned that it was important to keep the legion busy rather than sitting around the barracks thinking about who the next ruler would be. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-29 09:48 |
| #1 "It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but are important internationally." Or as they might more succinctly put it down da hood; "Unkle Sugar has pimped the military to the Arab League and the UN" |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-03-29 09:41 |