CT352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pospolite Ruszenie, Morale, Straitjacket
12 Feb 2016
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Modern war is the product of three distinct kinds of change: administrative, technical, and ideological 3. The increase in power and sophistication of weapon systems has been exponential. In the middle of the 19th c improvements in technology, brought the most substantial results. Tradition has always been important in fostering the esprit de corps of fighting units, and can lead to fossilization 4. The process often labelled the rise of the modern state" was a cocktail of administrative, economic, and social developments. In europe, several states were emerging simultaneously as rival powers the result was the military revolution". The final transformation of war was propelled by the french. The contrast between 18th c and revolutionary warfare has often been exaggerated 5. The revolution changed the minds of men and women 6. The decree of the levee en masse in august of 1973 projected an image of mass mobilization that has never lost its force.
