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Creating a mass army to deal with an old-style mass army is simply to put hundreds of thousands of our troops in harm's way needlessly.
You avoid raising a mass army and leave the land fighting as far as possible to continental allies".
In spite of its elitist samurai tradition, Japan accepted the spirit behind the mass army more fully than the nations of Europe.
Another special case was Britain, which continued its peacetime conscription until 1960, when it was replaced by voluntary enlistment and the idea of a mass army was virtually abandoned.
Exemplary Clausewitzian leaders, they used the new instruments of the time the mass army, now sustained year-round by early industrial economies that could ship vast quantities of matériel to distant fronts to achieve their purposes.
After Prussia's stunning victory over France in 1871, all the great powers came sooner or later to adopt the German model of a mass army, supplied by a national network of railways and arms industries coordinated in turn by a general staff.
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The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism?
Industrialization also made possible the outfitting and supply of mass armies drawn from the growing populations.
The ability to manufacture large numbers of muskets enabled military leaders to equip these mass armies.
In the century after Waterloo, war became industrialized as mass armies were equipped with ever more lethal killing machines.
In a chilling afterward to the 2012 edition he writes that "The drone war is the unmanned opposite of the mass armies of the Great War.
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