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Collective defence
- One of our greatest problems as humans is the threat from other humans.
- If those other humans band together then us individual humans are likely to lose.
- Thus, we need to band together as well. In doing so we create a state.
- That state has the power to protect us but it also has the power to enslave us.
The above seems obvious to me but is it to others?
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It is obvious to me. The insoluble problem is that a war-band needs discipline in order to fight successfully, but it’s damned difficult to drop the habit of giving and taking orders, especially if the threat continues.
The yin to that yang is the oft-observed cycle in which a country’s military success means that its people feel safe, so they cease to prepare for war or value the military virtues, so they lose the next war.