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A warfare model where effective gunpowder integration requires reorganizing the entire society, not merely adding weapons to an army.
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whole-society approach
A warfare model where effective gunpowder integration requires reorganizing the entire society, not merely adding weapons to an army.
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Europe surpassed the gunpowder empires because it adopted a whole-society approach to warfare that changed social structure: feudalism to nation-state, village agriculture to towns and industry, religion to science.
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A whole-society approach directs material, trade, production, specialists, industry, research, bureaucracy, and military hierarchy toward gunpowder warfare.
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"...would surpass the gunpowder empires because they would adopt a whole -society approach to warfare, okay? So what does that mean? It means that..."
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"Does that make sense? Feudal is decentralized local powers. Nation -state is you have a centralized bureaucracy. Okay, you need that, and that's what..."
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"Science is asking the question, how can we win this war? How can we make gunpowder much more effective? How can we kill more..."
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"So now, what happened is that the king would ask for conscripts from all lands to create a centralized army, okay? So why you..."
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"...what this means is you need what we call a whole society approach, okay? You have to radically transform your society so that all..."
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"...but why is it that it's Europe that uses a whole society approach and not China, not the Ottomans, not the Indians, okay? And..."
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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