It depends. Peasant revolts have happened in the past, the nobility isn't a factor under an absolutist, bureaucratic monarchy and what the military does depends on if they're being used as a favored class to maintain power or not.
Although this was then, things would likely work very differently now. Unless you're North Korea or China, any monarchist industrialized nation is going to develop serious unrest if the ruling monarch becomes tyrannical or sells out their own country. The digital age has made it very difficult to cover up the misdeeds of a head of state.
That was before any schmuck could make an AK-47 out of a shovel in their garage. Like the Americans say, people shouldn't fear the government. The government should fear the people. And we have the technology to make that happen.
Whether we will make that happen is another question entirely, but we can try.
No, no they don't. They rely on the armed forces and they rely on the nobility, whom they keep on side with various favours and grants.
It depends. Peasant revolts have happened in the past, the nobility isn't a factor under an absolutist, bureaucratic monarchy and what the military does depends on if they're being used as a favored class to maintain power or not.
Although this was then, things would likely work very differently now. Unless you're North Korea or China, any monarchist industrialized nation is going to develop serious unrest if the ruling monarch becomes tyrannical or sells out their own country. The digital age has made it very difficult to cover up the misdeeds of a head of state.
... do you know what normally happens to those peasant revolts?
I'll give you a clue: It rarely ends well for the peasants.
That was before any schmuck could make an AK-47 out of a shovel in their garage. Like the Americans say, people shouldn't fear the government. The government should fear the people. And we have the technology to make that happen.
Whether we will make that happen is another question entirely, but we can try.
Even assuming you're correct, unless you're running a black powder AK-47 sourcing ammunition for it is going to be considerably more complex.
Even making black powder isn't risk-free.