A memo, circulating in the hushed corridors of the Pentagon, has set in motion a chilling new reality.
It directs every state’s National Guard to create “quick reaction forces.” 23,500 troops, trained in “riot control,” ready for “rapid nationwide deployment” to quell “civil disturbances.”
On the surface, it’s about order. But the language is unsettling. It’s a national-level force, centrally controlled, designed for domestic operations. It raises a question that echoes through the bone-yards of history: what happens when the sword of the state turns inward?
The Time Portal
Let’s travel back to 745 BCE.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire, a regional power, is teetering on the brink. Its borders are porous, its provinces are in constant, simmering revolt, and its military is a patchwork of seasonal conscripts, loyal more to their local governors than to the king in his far-off palace.
This is the world a new king, Tiglath-Pileser III, inherits. He sees an empire rotting from within. He knows that to expand, he must first control. To conquer his enemies abroad, he must first conquer his own people.
The Parallel Revelation
And so, Tiglath-Pileser III unleashes a revolution.
He creates something the world has never seen before: a professional, standing army. Not a seasonal militia, but a full-time, paid force, loyal only to him. He strips the provincial governors of their power to raise armies. He establishes permanent garrisons in every corner of his empire. He creates a direct chain of command, from the lowest foot soldier to the king himself.
And the purpose of this revolutionary force? Not just to fight foreign wars.
Its primary mission is internal. It is a machine designed to “ensure stability from enemies within.” The parallels to today’s Pentagon memo are stunning. A national-level force, centrally controlled. Permanent units stationed across the entire territory. A clear mandate for internal “crowd control” and “quelling disturbances.”
It is the very same logic, separated by nearly three millennia. The logic of centralized control. The logic of a state that trusts its own people so little, it builds an army to watch over them.
The Pattern Recognition
What Tiglath-Pileser III discovered, and what history has proven time and again, is that a state that rules by fear will never be secure.
The Assyrians became masters of terror. They flayed rebels alive. They impaled their enemies on stakes. They covered the gates of conquered cities with the skins of those who dared to resist. Inscriptions recording these vicious acts were displayed throughout the empire as warnings.
But this brutality did not create loyalty. It bred hatred.
The empire was in a constant state of rebellion. The more force the Assyrians used, the more resistance they faced. The very army designed to ensure stability became the engine of its own destruction.
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The Ancient Warning
For three centuries, the Assyrian war machine was the most feared force on earth.
And then, in less than two decades, it was gone. In 626 BCE, a Chaldean warlord named Nabopolassar rose up in Babylon. He was joined by the Medes, another people who had suffered under Assyrian rule. In 612 BCE, they sacked the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. By 609 BCE, the last vestiges of the empire had been wiped from the face of the earth.
The provinces, held in check for so long by fear, erupted in a firestorm of rebellion.
The centralized military, once the empire’s greatest strength, proved to be its fatal weakness. There was no loyalty to the state, only to the idea of freedom from it. The Assyrian Empire was not conquered by a foreign power. It was devoured by the hatred it had sown within its own borders.
5 Things Readers Can Do This Week
History is not a spectator sport. It is a warning. Here are five things you can do this week to prepare for the echoes of Assyria in our own time:
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The Assyrian Empire thought it could rule forever through fear and force. It created the world’s first professional standing army for internal control. It established garrisons in every province. It centralized all military power under one man.
And within 300 years, it was dust.
The pattern is clear. The warning is ancient. The question is: will we heed it?
Sources:
– World History Encyclopedia: “Assyrian Warfare” by Joshua J. Mark
– Cambridge University: “Garrisoning the Empire: Aspects of the Construction and Maintenance of Forts on the Assyrian Frontier”
– The Guardian: “Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces'”
– Academic research on Tiglath-Pileser III military reforms and the Neo-Assyrian Empire
