[AntiGuv]

It's been a long while since I've read this history. Long while meaning I was in high school. In any event, here's the first link that came up on Google:

Greek colonists in the Middle East always formed a local militia when needed. In the last challenge to Greek rule, there were no Greek local militias available. They were killed in the last Persian war. Not only were the Byzantines exhausted, but their native troops deserted or turned against them. They were also without their local Greek auxiliaries.⁴

Native troops cannot desert or betray if they don't exist.......

⁴[Yarmuq - ]Alfred Guillaume, op. cit. p.19

[Antoninus]

Greek colonists in the Middle East always formed a local militia when needed. In the last challenge to Greek rule, there were no Greek local militias available. They were killed in the last Persian war. Not only were the Byzantines exhausted, but their native troops deserted or turned against them. They were also without their local Greek auxiliaries.

I'm afraid this doesn't do much for me, considering some of the shoddy writing elsewhere in this article. Here's an example:

"...The local Christians had to struggle for the acceptance of their monotheism. The large majority of local Christians belonged to one of the Southern Christian churches, Nestorians or Monophysites. Their dogmas were far from the official Christian creed, which attempted to prove that three is equal to one. Indeed, the Monophysites violently opposed the official creed."

This is simply dead wrong. The Monophysites were trinitarian. Where they differed with the Chacedonians was that they assigned only a single nature to Christ, whereas the Chalcedonians (and the Orthodox and Catholics today) ascribe two natures to Christ--True God and True man.

At any rate, I'll need to see a primary source confirming this--not the writings of some internet crank with his own pet theories.