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A full-time army paid by taxes rather than a seasonal farmer levy; Jiang names Sargon as the first major example in this sequence.
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Professional army
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...France many, many times. But then something really weird happened. These professional armies who go into France, and they're fighting against these citizens, okay?"
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Sargon begins the pattern of professional armies by replacing seasonal farmer-soldiers with full-time soldiers supported by taxes.
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"Their goal is not to conquer the world. Their goal is to change the world for the better. As demanded by the gods. Does..."
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"...France many, many times. But then something really weird happened. These professional armies who go into France, and they're fighting against these citizens, okay?"
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"...these wars, was that you had the monarchies, and these were professional armies. And so these were basically mercenaries. And the thing about mercenaries..."
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"...soviet union they had tanks they had helicopters they had a professional army the iranians in 1980s didn't have an army they didn't have..."
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"...So for most of its history, America did not have a professional army. Why? Because the Founding Fathers and most American citizens believed that..."
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"...War, to get rid of America. And they didn't have the professional army that was the British, okay? So Americans do not like a..."
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"...Greeks did against the Persians. But with gunpowder, you need a professional army, you need engineers, you need the resources that allow you to..."
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"...else will pay taxes in order for me to pay my professional army. But these are professional soldiers. They are full -time soldiers at..."
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"...personally paid every soldier in the army, which is now a professional army, they're now loyal to the emperor. Okay? He took Gaul, which..."
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