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We are very good at delivering explosives to specific points. We are not very good at occupying territory. One is all tech based, the other is political will and numbers. Same with Israel.

Yes. In Romania the army joined the revolution and turned on Ceaușescu and his security forces.

They’d be killing their own relatives and neighbors. Pretty hard to run a society that is decimated. Eventually even those in power realize how off the rails it is. If the military is heavily made of draftees it is more likely they’d refuse such orders.

Need something to replace it though that isn’t worse. In France you got the reign of terror followed by Napoleon. In Russia you got Lenin then Stalin. Germany got the Weimar gov after ww1 but it was too weak to survive.