A stop-gap

Things are busy. I have meant to post for 2 days and haven't managed to yet and my impending lecture (yes, I am panicking) tomorrow means that this will be short and insufficient. Just to put it out there - I've been thinking about the merits of linking taxation to cost-of-living (somehow) and the ways in which the US military is facing similar difficulties in manpower, strategy, and defence to the Roman military from about 250AD on. Basically the old-school system fell apart with the advent of mobile, irrational raiding. And other things. Just something to chew on.