he can put new people in those positions

though it is true that trend was moving towards more equalitarian model, where noble people were losing their status and dignity

and give them those names

As he's the head of hte post-Marian reform army

which governs all rural life

and is the rural economy

so he is basically the economic and social bastion of the 90% of the population that lives outside of the cities

who will do whatever he says due to patron client morality

and military chain of command

My ideal models for Monarchy and an Aristocratic societies are

Imperial Russia

Imperial Japan

Victorian Britain

what era of imperial japan?

Vedic India

from 19th century onwards

there are different eras wthin the 20th century

as imperial japan started as an oligarchy

and jus was an empire on paper

It was always technically an oligarchy

but for the 19th century it was an actual oligarchy

It drifted towards militarism which was still OK

the militarism killed the empire

Japanese were ruled by cold steel reason

nukes killed the empire

nobody could predict that

no they were already losing

they predicted they would lose

read the actual documents

Yes but USA lost 50k people invadinga small coral island

no way mainland japan was to be invaded

the japanese army and navy both predicted they would lose regardless of the USA

hmmm

in the 1930s

not 50k, some smaller number

still

then they just predicted teh other sides plan would lose

Well I do agree that Japanese would reach a stalemate with the Chinese even without USA

But then again, Japan needed only to decisivelly defeat USA navy which it could do but failed

That's the whole point, that's why they struck Dutch and British over there and menanced the seas

They knew they could not stand against millions and millions on land