Eksempler på army

• The army's political power distorted rights protection and market fairness.

• Arguably that is so in the paradigm cases of armies and mental asylums.

• The fear of standing armies went hand-in-hand with the fear of a corruption of the body politic.

• Drafts to replace losses would still leave the armies 100,000 men short in 1918, which would cause the suppression of about six divisions.

• Especially horrific were 1796, 1799, 1805, 1809, and 1813-15, for it was then that the biggest armies were present for longest.

• What is most striking is the way that states managed to build highly coherent political systems without the use of standing armies.

• Others found work as foot soldiers in the private armies of wealthy notables or as independent bandits.

• The commerce and theft of the two armies certainly suggests mercenary objectives rather than the close cooperation of allies.