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?
>>1072763
No, tech mastery and mitigation of information overrule mass maneuver which is what they excelled at.
>>1072763
>Is there anything they did better than we do now?
Convince the average person that joining the military is a good idea.
>>1072763
>Is there anything they did better than we do now?
Shanghai tall people to work in a ceremonial unit.
>>1073922
so does the operational level not matter anymore?
Invade and annex Silesia at the first opportunity.
>>1072763
A strong military culture makes for a strong military?
>>1073928
It's not even remotely so.
>>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
One well trained german soldiers is better than ten austrian armed peasants.
>>1072763
Militaries all over the world still read Clausewitz.
>>1073928
Yeah let's all be brutes
>>1074309
Not when conscripts get mowed down by what they would designate quarter strength divisions with eighth strength artillery regiments.
>>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.