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What a good idea, piss off and fire a large number of men with military training.
What could go wrong?
It is, for some reason, classic rookie mistake #1 in the aspiring dictator's playbook. It makes perfect sense. After all, it's crucial that all the troops be loyal to me, so just get rid of any of them that I don't like. Problem solved! The rest of them won't care, and they just evaporate when we fire them, right?
Rather than a rookie mistake it's the least bad option. Would you rather have a large number of pissed off men with military training, or a large number of well-armed pissed off men with military training?
There are smart solutions to this.