Re: military identity

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Interesting. I wonder what Jerry Pournelle makes of this? SD
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From: "Rafal Smigrodzki" <rafal@smigrodzki.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 8:37 PM
Subject: military identity

>
> I found an interesting article on TCS,
>
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?PID=1051-350&CID=1y.or
> 051-061903A, about US military identity. Amazing similarities to imperial
> Rome. I feel even the acronyms have an eerie ring to them - SOCOM (Special
> Operations Command), similar to SOC (Secretum Officium Caesarii), maybe
> Secretum Officium Caesarii Omni Mundis (pardon my declensions). Worth
> reading.
>
> If the vision advanced by the article's author was to come true, one day
> armored legionnaires, carapaced centurios, whose predecessors started out
as
> the Grand Army of the Republic, will hold a sleepless vigil over the
world,
> looking down at the teeming proletarii, ready to spring into ruthless
action
> at the emperor's, sorry, Commander-in-Chief's order.
>
> I hope not.
>
> Rafal
>

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