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What lessons are there to be learned from the Prussian military
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What lessons are there to be learned from the Prussian military that still apply today? Is there anything they did better than we do now?
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>>1072763
No, tech mastery and mitigation of information overrule mass maneuver which is what they excelled at.
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>>1072763
>Is there anything they did better than we do now?

Convince the average person that joining the military is a good idea.
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>>1072763
>Is there anything they did better than we do now?
Shanghai tall people to work in a ceremonial unit.
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>>1073922

so does the operational level not matter anymore?
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Invade and annex Silesia at the first opportunity.
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>>1072763
A strong military culture makes for a strong military?
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>>1073928
It's not even remotely so.
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>>1072763
don't declare war on the french empire when they already on your border ready to fucc and you still rockin like it's 1757
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One well trained german soldiers is better than ten austrian armed peasants.
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>>1072763
Militaries all over the world still read Clausewitz.
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>>1073928
Yeah let's all be brutes
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>>1074309
Not when conscripts get mowed down by what they would designate quarter strength divisions with eighth strength artillery regiments.
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>>1073928
Modern military theory dates ~1980-present. Prussia ceased to be in 1945. I can't possibly see how we can learn from them more than we have.
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