<span>Bureaucracy! That is the main problem of the empire and mostly the republic. The republic fell because the size of the empire was to big, the events were moving rapidly and there was no time for bureaucracy, voting, debating and so on. When Rome became an empire it didn't of course change immediately</span>
Authoritarian rule is best characterized as rule by one person or a small group of people. Authoritarian is a form of government that has a strong central power and has limited political freedoms. It has four qualities based form Juan Linz's influential 1964 description of authoritarianism.
The real reason for maintaining armies is the same reason why some men buy expensive sports cars... overcompensating.
Seriously, think of armies as insurance. Even if it's small, amateurish, and under-funded, it's likely to give potential bullies a little pause. (Of course, a big country like Iraq can sweep up a little country like Kuwait in no time flat, as we all know).
Part of the answer is social/ economic/ political inertia. The military is part of the playground for the elite and privileged. (I use the word playground as in "fork over your lunch money, weakling.") Who wants to get rid of their army just to balance the budget? I sure haven´t seen "fire soldier-boys" on any IMF or World Bank wish lists
A lot of countries, fragile democracies, say, find armies to be an effective tool to use on internal "problems." In a pinch, a loyal military can keep your nation away from chaos. On the other hand, they work equally well to keep dictators in power.
<span>Many countries do get a lot more mileage out of their armies than Iceland or Costa Rica could possibly get. Obviously, a lot of African countries find them pretty handy.
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Also, keep this quote in mind
<span>"It takes two countries to maintain peace and only one to make war"</span>
This is known simply as real culture. It is the cultural norms and behaviors that people <em>actually</em> follow in <em>real</em> life.
The answer to the blank is none of the above as the answer to the blank is Upward Social Mobility.
Social mobility refers to the individuals or groups movement in social position and upward social mobility is the ability to move up in social class and the opposite is the downward mobility. The movement or the social mobility is based on education, occupation, wealth and other social variable.
