During the English Civil war military commanders were typically aristocrats who were also politicians in the house of Lords or Commons. On the parliament side this started to cause issues of strategy and tactics, where parliamentarian commanders had varying political aims and attitudes towards the king they were fighting against. For example the Earl of Manchester helped defeat the King's forces as Newbury but allowed the king's army to retreat in good order, throwing away the chance of a crushing victory, because he thought a post war restoration deal would be better if the king's forces hadn't been annihilated.
This and other political infighting led to the Self Denying Ordinance act where all politician commanders must give up their military commands, effectively ending the feudal style aristocratic armies in England. This separated politicians and the war, allowing the army to effectively fight the royalists without mixed aims. Most of them voted for this knowing they'd have to give up their own commands (which generally went to veteran combat officers). However the one exception to the rule was Oliver Cromwell, who commanded a large cavalry troop and was known to be such an effective commander and tactician that it was decided the rule wouldn't apply to him and he'd be allowed to continue his military command, and he eventually came to command entire armies.
Predictably with hindsight Cromwell being the only parliamentarian politician with his own military force, he eventually purged parliament of his political rivals with his soldiers, backed executing the king, and ended up becoming sole ruler of England.
This and other political infighting led to the Self Denying Ordinance act where all politician commanders must give up their military commands, effectively ending the feudal style aristocratic armies in England. This separated politicians and the war, allowing the army to effectively fight the royalists without mixed aims. Most of them voted for this knowing they'd have to give up their own commands (which generally went to veteran combat officers). However the one exception to the rule was Oliver Cromwell, who commanded a large cavalry troop and was known to be such an effective commander and tactician that it was decided the rule wouldn't apply to him and he'd be allowed to continue his military command, and he eventually came to command entire armies.
Predictably with hindsight Cromwell being the only parliamentarian politician with his own military force, he eventually purged parliament of his political rivals with his soldiers, backed executing the king, and ended up becoming sole ruler of England.
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The most competent fascist?
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The May Days refer to the battle within the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War, in which libertarian socialist supporters of the Spanish Revolution of 1936, such as the anarcho-syndicalist/communist CNT and the anti-Stalinist POUM, which opposed a centralized government, faced others, such as the Republican government, Catalan government and the stalinist Communist Party of Spain, which believed in a strong central government. About a thousand anti-USSR leftists were massacred by those acting under Joseph Stalin's orders, resulting in the end of the revolution and creating a massive infighting within the Republican side.
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Indeed a 1000-year realm.
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POV: you are a mammal during a literal Armageddon.
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