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French revolutionary armies defeated monarchic professional armies because citizens animated by the new sovereign theory were willing to fight and die while mercenaries mainly wanted pay and intimidation.
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Citizen Armies
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"...professional soldiers. What's happening was that they were losing to these citizen armies. And the question is, why was this happening? And the reason..."
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"call on their citizens to fight and to die, and it was almost unlimited amount of soldiers. Whereas the other countries like Prussia, Russia,..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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