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* Samuel Pepys almost founded the Royal Navy on his own during the Stuart monarchs.
* Frank J. Wilson, agent of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Internal Revenue (and later Chief of the United States Secret Service). It was his meticulous scrutiny of [[Al Capone]]'s finances which allowed the criminal's arrest and conviction for tax evasion.
* Military bureaucracy in general. Without efficient military bureaucracy, commanders would set up on their own, or make a play for dictatorship of the whole country at worst; at best they would scam their own men below them and the government above and the men would take it out on civilians. The concentrated physical force makes controlling it a miracle, while the wealth involved in military-industrial complexes practically begs for tippling(some of the tricks of military embezzlement are thousands of years old and still practiced when they can be gotten away with). And that is just the effort needed to keep the military from being pernicious from it's own country's point of view. To actually give it reliable combat performance without [[HAD to Be Sharp|constant warfare]] is well nigh miraculous. It is no mystery why so many countries get clobbered whenever they take the field, it is a mystery that anyone succeeds.
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