I just read the parenthetical "democracies perform well in wars in part because of their ability to mobilize a large share of the population without destabilizing their internal political arrangement" and I would love to see this examined more closely
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I’m guessing the author means that for some regimes, arming the people into a large conscript army would constitute a political risk for the ruling class and democracies do not have that worry
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There are many regimes where a political police army is constituted as an elite praetorian guard to check the potential power of the regular armed forces. Or more than one. Saddam had something like six elite intel/SOF orgs watching each other, the Baath Party and the Army
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