no. it's pretty clear that pre-industrial, pre-ww1 warfare was an entirely different beast. you can tell that just from the kind of songs and poems and stuff the soldiers themselves came up with. napoleonic songs: > oh boy we love to fight, warriors we are, remember that battle where we lost half of the lads? but we still beat the french so it was awesome, now buy us a drink, we're going back to war fuck yeah ww1 songs: > oh my fucking god this place is hell get me out of here everything is awful fuck fuck fuck the pre-industrial kind of warfare that was 6 months doing nothing then the entire war settled in a handful of climactic battles that lasted a day each. even if those battles were horrifying. they only lasted the day, and the rest of the time the soldiers were fairly sure of their safety. and of course everyone was much more religious and the cause they were fighting for was much more clearly defined and less controversial. > we're fighting to further my nation's dominance over others no geopolitical bullshit. vehement, shameless nationalism was the active policy of their governments and people.
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