Napoleon directly won because of pencil pushers. No modern military ever won off of just vibes and strategic wit. They won from logistics and the backing of an economy populated by everyday cogs. No empire in the 19th century could've existed without the mundane bureacracy.
Napoleon directly won because of pencil pushers. No modern military ever won off of just vibes and strategic wit. They won from logistics and the backing of an economy populated by everyday cogs. No empire in the 19th century could've existed without the mundane bureacracy.
This is the right wing version of anarchists thinking that they'll be the one in charge after the revolution
@AltHistCody Hey Cody, was there bureaucracy in the Akkadian Empire?
@AltHistCody The Emperor Napoleons greatest invention besides the grand battery was the Code Civil. Frameworks still in effect in the continent and elsewhere to this day..
@AltHistCody Resources to production is a bell curve. Too many resources can destroy. The Marine Corps for example has the lowest budget of any armed force but is more ready, more lethal and more effective than the other services.
@AltHistCody Yeah. The Roman’s best battlefield ability was logistics. They could keep armies supplied so well
@AltHistCody @ekelly1701 You kinda need both though.
@AltHistCody Yes. I worry a lot about our military in many ways, but the ability for us to pop up a Macdonald’s or Taco Bell anywhere in the world about 24- hours after securing the location makes me think armchair strategists radically underestimate the United States military.
@AltHistCody He meticulously exploited the 3-way tensions between the royalists, revolutionaries, and nationalists and unified them into an efficient logistical device masterminded by his Marshals that were able to deliver his guidance with objectivity and temerity for their respective causes