Both these views had some truth to them, despite the biases of their authors: Diocletian and the tetrarchs did greatly expand the army, and the growth was mostly in frontier regions, where the increased effectives of the new Diocletianic legions seem to have been mostly spread across a network of strongholds.
The growing army of advocates of reinventing growth patterns and shifting values so as to make the massive prospective growth of the global economy consistent with the natural resource base that we have, is gaining ground pretty much everywhere, with a little help from an angry and sometime violent Mother Nature.
Its population will certainly be younger and so able to push growth, fill army ranks, innovate and so on for decades to come.
One insider calculates that the planned growth of the army, police, intelligence, private security and militia will create one armed man for every 32 civilians.
The nation's wealth — its world-class companies, its enviable growth rates, its army of enterprising and educated young technical workers — is concentrated in the cities.
At the news conference, Mr. Wardak spoke of the growth of the army, which after the collapse of the Communist government here was almost completely decimated.
A remarkable run of success on both sides of the operation – gold medals for Team GB, yellow and green jerseys for Team Sky – encouraged the growth of an army of British fans, whose enthusiasm was on show from Leeds to London last weekend.
To compensate for so many awols in the civilian population, this year the army has cut its projected growth in half, giving up on its goal to reach 500,000 active-duty soldiers after it failed to grow at all in 2018.
He says: "[It] highlights the popularity of his timeless sound and the explosive growth of his army of fans.
