Police replace armies because totalitarian rule treats conquered peoples as domestic traitors

Evidence

The military forces, trained to fight a foreign aggressor, have always been a dubious instrument for civil-war purposes; even under totalitarian conditions they find it difficult to regard their own people with the eyes of a foreign conqueror. More important in this respect, however, is that their value becomes dubious even in time of war. Since the totalitarian ruler conducts his policies on the assumption of an eventual world government, he treats the victims of his aggression as though they were rebels, guilty of high treason, and consequently prefers to rule occupied territories with police, and not with military forces. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 942

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern police pose the threat standing armies once did — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 707; Democratic regimes deploy civilian police rather than military against protesters