Orwell is right.

"He had grasped the truth about the English and their Empire. -benevolent, no doubt, but still a despotism with THEFT as its final object. and the real backbone of despotism is not the officials but the Army. Given the Army, the officials and the business men can rub along safely enough even if they are fools, fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets."

CHRIST