Prolonged inactive war breeds a parasitic idle military caste on civilians

Evidence

Perhaps for many years now the country would transplant, secrete on its frontiers, a population de luxe, a violent, idle military caste depending for its daily bread on the civilians and finally demanding it of them, as the desert nomads levy tribute on the cultivated regions. — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 275

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 275
• XREF: connects to: Bureaucratic war preparation can produce anticlimax rather than combat — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 49; Military fortifications can decay into domestic squalor amid wartime idleness — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 45; Protecting national lives in war increases those lives’ social precariousness (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Military fortifications can decay into domestic squalor amid wartime idleness #exemplifies (0.72) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 45
• Hyperprotecting soldiers shifts the burden of risk onto civilians #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 300
• Removing combat exposure reduces soldiers to mere executioners #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 367
• Protecting national lives in war increases those lives’ social precariousness #complicates (0.45)
• Human emotions protect civilians by restraining lethal military force #complicates (0.35) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1135