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**[[Subverted Trope|That's actually pretty good]] for a muscle powered army as even if Colormen has a standing force, it would spare time to select men for a special ops mission that has such potential for backfiring and in any case there is no reason to be hurried as it was only the worst of luck that a spy willing to take the risk of travelling all the way to Archenland to give a warning heard about it, while they very much needed to get a hold of horses, fodder and enough water to get across the desert.
***By comparison it would take longer to plan a proper Church picnic which of course has no wasteland to cross and no hostile resistance.
* The Barrayaran government in [[Vorkosigan Saga]] is a zig-zag. It is not really fascist, but is definitely [[Insistent Terminology|authoritarian.]] However the military is generally efficient, and the Imperial Security [[Badass Army|certainly is.]] Of course it's efficiency is rather spotty; it's economy and technology is suboptimal although that is at least excusable by it's previous isolation and the scourging of an invasion. It is to be noted that Barrayarans though they are flawed are not villainous.
**The Cetagandans are closer to a straight example. They are plagued with internal troubles and seem to have come to the end of their expansionist ability.
* Justified in ''[[Codex Alera]]''. At first, the obstreperous [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] in a position of authority in the valley garrison looks like a [[Contrived Coincidence]], making things harder for the heroes and easier for the villains for no good reason. Later, though, we learn that {{spoiler|the bureaucrat is an innocent if incompetent guy, but the [[Big Bad Friend]] was so [[Crazy Prepared]] that before the story started he spent weeks sabotaging the valley garrison, including getting incompetent people reassigned to important places}}.
* The [[Cold War]]-era political thriller ''Pentagon'' is an [[Author Tract]] against the U.S. military procurement system, and [[Anvilicious]]ly examines the bureaucratic infighting and interservice rivalry that paralyzes America's military response to the chillingly efficient Soviet invasion of a Pacific island to use it as a nuclear missile base.
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