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This is the Friends Vista Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelors Gaias and I welcome my colleague,

Dramatic Smok of Leos, or by the Thames Londonium 91 AD now.

It's choppy in the English channel, holding back the theater company that was due here in

Londonium to entertain us tonight, Sunday night.

So we're entertaining ourselves before we go to see last week's company,

recreate the same tableau, Kato's death.

However, before we get to Kato's death, we have to back up into

the first century BCE.

The question here is, was the Roman army politicized?

This is a question that is pressing on the decision makers in the 21st century,

during the partisanship in the United States of America, a direct inheritor of Roman institutions.

Rome plus a lot of years, 2000 years, we recognize the United States of America.

But the question has come up in the USA these last years.

Is the army, is the Navy, is the Air Force politicized?

Has it always been politicized?

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