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Old 07-13-2004, 11:01 AM   #84 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Zeld2.0
Again which is why I would say it is hard to overthrow a government in modern times against a modern army (the best, no-less) unless the people in the military themselves were on the revolutionaries' side.

I would agree that this is a sine qua non for a successful revolution, but this has always been the case, in modern times and in olden.
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