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Total war and conscription gave France three advantages: willingness to absorb casualties, speed, and strategic flexibility through corps.
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Total war and conscription gave France three advantages: willingness to absorb casualties, speed, and strategic flexibility through corps.
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Key Notes
causal-chain
Carnot created levee en masse to dilute noble influence, but later conspired against Robespierre because Robespierre's virtue prevented beneficiaries from enjoying power.
causal-chain
Europe becomes dominant because it never stops fighting internally and externally; these wars force larger armies, better weapons, more taxation, and better conscription.
causal-chain
Gunpowder drives feudalism toward absolute monarchy because mass gunpowder armies require taxation, conscription, and centralized bureaucracy.
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He predicts that if Ukraine loses by running out of soldiers, NATO is likely to send its own troops against Russia, citing French discussion of troops and British discussion of conscription.
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Jiang interprets proposals to raise reservist enlistment age and draft mechanisms as signs of a depopulation/elitist control trend.
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"You know, one more question I want to ask. Because a German politician recently said that they should... Raise the age of enlistment for..."
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"Look, I think there's a depopulation agenda going on where the elite have known for decades that the population we have is unsustainable. This..."
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"...is, it is total war. In other words, it is complete conscription. There are no volunteers. There are no deserters. It's everyone must now..."
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"For example, Austerlitz, right? Austerlitz was a huge, huge gamble that paid out for the French. But they were able to do so because..."
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"If you have an extremely dedicated army, what you're able to do is you're able to divide them into different units called corps. Okay?..."
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"...Soldiers didn't want to fight, they were forced to fight. No conscription, volunteer army, basically deserters. One -third were deserted every year. Okay, one..."
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"Let's call it a levy. They en masse. So let's get everyone to join the military, so as to dilute the influence of nobility...."
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"And also why they also have very effective industries, okay? Schools is preparing people not just for the military but also for the assembly..."
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"So the wars began between Europe and the Ottomans are called the Hungarian -Ottoman Wars, and this will last for about 300 years. And..."
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"These are soldiers killed, not civilians. But when you get to but a few years later, it's 31,000, okay? And then it goes up..."
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"They love their country, they want freedom for their country, so they take up arms and they're able to defeat much more powerful European..."
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"...effectively use this gunpowder. So you need two things, taxation and conscription. And therefore, you need a bureaucracy, okay? Does that make sense, guys?..."
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