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Originally Posted by arthursmedley

Haven't large standing armies always been about this? In Great Britain the last large standing army in peacetime was the one created by Cromwell during the civil war and after his death we had a helluva time trying to reduce it's powers and get rid of it. We took these lessons to heart - as did the people who would go on to write the US constitution. Until the Cold War large standing armies were associated with tyrannical regimes.

implying he large standing armies in the cold war weren't associated with tyrannical regimes?