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“In the days of the Republic, a legion was recruited by an army commander after he had been given a task by the Senate, whether to conquer a new province or hold an old one. When the task was completed, the legion - a collection of volunteers, all who should be Roman citizens - should have disbanded.”
A catalogue of the Roman legions
Look familiar?
In the days of the Republic, legions of citizen soldiers were recruited to fulfill tasks when the Senate declared war. The tasks were to defend America, whether that meant to conquer an enemy’s homeland and occupy that territory until further notice or to repel attack.
When the tasks were completed, the soldiers - a collection of volunteers and draftees, all who should be American citizens - should be disbanded.
“Augustus completely reorganized the Roman forces. Instead of temporary volunteers, there was to be a standing army. By disbanding some and merging others, he ended up with a new force of 28 legions. Most of these were to last for more than two centuries, more than half for four, and one - the V Macedonia - was still to be found in the sixth century A.D.”
A catalogue of the Roman legions
Sound familiar?
Donaldus Rummulus under Ignoramus Maximus Bus***is completely reorganized the American forces. Instead of temporary volunteers, there was to be a standing army of volunteers only. By depending on technology, he ended up with a new force of 28 legions. Most of these were to last for more than the projected forty year reign of the Republicans. Ignoramus Maximus Bus***is secretly envisioned that at least half of them would still to be found in the twenty-fifth century A.D, as his only legacy.
“The situation in 215 was probably the heyday of the classical legion. Over the next 200 years, many more were to be lost in battle, or just to be disbanded or fade away. The tide of warfare was turning away from the classical infantry battle, and towards cavalry warfare between bands of mercenaries fighting for Rome - so long as she paid - on the one hand, and rebels and barbarians on the other. The traditional legions became the garrison troops, settled in a province, with retired legionaries marrying local women and their sons and grandsons enlisting in their turn.”
A catalogue of the Roman legions
Sound familiar?
The situation in 2015 was probably the result of the classical Rummulus approach. As Rummi saw it, the tide of warfare was turning away from the classical infantry battle, and towards hit and run warfare between bands of mercenaries fighting for America - so long as she paid - on the one hand, and Al Qaeda and insurgents on the other. The professional army, now consisting largely of illegal aliens (US Army wants to enlist illegal aliens quickly as recruitment falls) earning their U.S. Citizenship, or highly paid Blackwater (Blackwater: Bush’s Shadow Army) and other mercenary outfits are the garrison troops, settled in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and other less public territories of the United states, with retired legionaries marrying local women and their sons and grandsons enlisting in their turn.
One of the reasons for the downfall of the Roman Empire is that the Roman citizen got rich, fat and lazy.
- The agrarian Roman citizen of the Romulus and Remus origins of the Republic fought Rome’s battles. It was expected. It was a duty;
- Then came the ability to pay other to serve in one’s place. Buying out ones duty became legal and acceptable;
- Then came the recruitment of Huns, Goths and other "barbarians" (illegal aliens) to fight Rome’s wars for pay and/or to earn Roman citizenship. These outsiders were relegated to the enlisted ranks – the officers were still Romans with allegiance to Rome;
- Next came a time when the officers’ corps was opened to the outsiders. These outsiders were mercenaries with allegiance to their own accumulation of wealth and power, and much less to Rome;
- This degenerated into private armies (Blackwater) that ultimately marched on Rome itself.
Sound familiar?
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"On September 10, 2001, before most Americans had heard of Al Qaeda or imagined the possibility of a “war on terror,” Donald Rumsfeld stepped to the podium at the Pentagon to deliver one of his first major addresses as Defense Secretary under President George W. Bush. Standing before the former corporate executives he had tapped as his top deputies overseeing the high-stakes business of military contracting–many of them from firms like Enron, General Dynamics and Aerospace Corporation–Rumsfeld issued a declaration of war.
"'The topic today is an adversary that poses a threat, a serious threat, to the security of the United States of America,' Rumsfeld thundered. 'It disrupts the defense of the United States and places the lives of men and women in uniform at risk.' He told his new staff, 'You may think I’m describing one of the last decrepit dictators of the world…. [But] the adversary’s closer to home,' he said. 'It’s the Pentagon bureaucracy.' Rumsfeld called for a wholesale shift in the running of the Pentagon, supplanting the old DoD bureaucracy with a new model, one based on the private sector. Announcing this major overhaul, Rumsfeld told his audience, 'I have no desire to attack the Pentagon; I want to liberate it. We need to save it from itself.'
The next morning, the Pentagon would be attacked, literally, as a Boeing 757–American Airlines Flight 77–smashed into its western wall..."
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