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Why America's Military Never Became a Threat to Democracy

History Unplugged Podcast | American History, World History, World War 2, U.S. Presidents, Civil War by Support

Mar 5, 202651:32Society & Culture

America's Founding Fathers feared a standing army would inevitably threaten civilian governance. Yet 250 years later, the U.S. military remains a strange outlier among nearly every nation that has ever existed—main...

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Why America's Military Never Became a Threat to Democracy is an episode from History Unplugged Podcast | American History, World History, World War 2, U.S. Presidents, Civil War by Support. America's Founding Fathers feared a standing army...

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Published Mar 5, 2026, 51:32 long, audio available.