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Page 4 of 4 To conclude; the division of both the provinces and of the military and civil spheres therein created a military fragmentation which resulted in a confusion and inefficiency that made the decline of the western empire inevitable as they exposed an apparent weakness that only encouraged further, stronger Germanic assaults. Furthermore, the "mobile-field-army" of modern literature either failed to operate as intended or exists only in the minds of modern military theorists.
Ian Hughes
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