This book suggests that disarming the population is always a bad idea except in newly conquered territories.
This book suggests that disarming the population is always a bad idea except in newly conquered territories. Part of this book strongly criticizes the criminal Agathocles of Syracuse, who is used as an example of excessive brutality. This book claims that both borrowed auxiliary soldiers and mercenaries are completely useless. A section of this book criticizes Julius Caesar for unnecessary (*) generosity, in contrast to the example of Pope Julius II. This book's author may have been deliberately exaggerating the rhetoric of this book, considering his later writings such as the Discourses on Livy. The author of this book declared that for most rulers, it is better to be feared than loved. For 10 points, name this political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli.
This book suggests that disarming the population is always a bad idea except in newly conquered territories.
The Prince [or Il Principe] 