I liked the first half of David Leyonhjelm's article- the explanation of standing armies, professional armies, the use of armies for policing, the value of civilian forces, etc.

The Roman Legions as I understand were generally kept out of Rome itself- with the exception of the Praetorian Guard ;) during the later empire period.

Victoria apparently now justifies repressive force due to their early mismanagement of the situation- I'm unsure if this is due to incompetence or engineered subversion.

Interestingly one poster invoked Yuri Bezmenov- there's something understated here perhaps- my understanding of Bezmenov is that being a defector from Soviet Russia he warns against Communist Subversive Tactics- not that I disagree that the Victorian Government is Communist- but it doesn't follow that the Australian Army is Communist. Interesting.

http://spectator.org/four-stages-of-marxist-takeover-the-accuracy-of-yuri-bezmenov/

There are many interesting comments posted on this thread.

Bazz,

You said above: "Hmmm, I think I have had enough of the opinionated BSA. Most here do not have to skite about their education or lack of it."

That's because you are what I call a pseudo-intellectual.

I get it! You're unhappy because you wanted to really be a historian or archaeologist or sociologist or anthropologist or philosopher, etc. but it never happened.

You're not so you just pretend you are. I get it!

Yes Canum the Roman armies were kept out of central Italy after
their experience with Caesar.
He reinforced that by "Crossing the Rubicon" and entering Rome.
Still I do not think that is so much a problem these days

Canem Malum,

Yes CM you should pay attention to Bazz our resident pretend historian and classicist - he's full of it.