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Military theory dictates bankers lose their power

One of the standard tenets of military theory in developed economies is for the armed forces to be controlled by democratically-elected politicians.

Politicians responsive to an electorate's will decide whether to go to war and what its aims are; generals set out the strategy for how the aims are to be achieved. This is because the military is too important to the safety of a nation to be left to generals. The same is true in finance, which often uses military jargon to add narrative drive, but, unfortunately, politicians...