Learning about the end of the Western Roman Empire, in the ffith and sixth centuries, means that the situation of the Late Roman Army has to be tackled eventually--how could the famous Roman military allow the Roman Empire to fall? A popular theory, especially online, is that the Late Roman Army was disloyal to the Roman state, because it recruited too many non-Romans, that is, that it recruited too many barbarian foriegners. But is this really the case? This made a splash some time ago when Tucker Carlson and others brought it up, but what do historians of the Late Roman Empire think?