text: Totalitarianism....\n\nActually it is defined as relating or operating a centralized government in which a single person (to address your question) rules over political, economic,social life and military control.\n\nMy opinion, no those days are go.  A leader like Alexander so  even Cesar had to have generals he could count on.  \n\nI believe those days are far behind us.  And as you indicate, with MAD, even a person like Saddam if he had nukes could not have been another Attila.