Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.
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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
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