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IV.
CONCERNING SOME CARDINAL SINS OF MILITARISM.
MALTREATMENT OF SOLDIERS OR MILITARISM
AS A REPENTANT, YET UNREFORMED
SINNER.
TWO DILEMMAS.
The militarists are not all dull-witted. That is proven by the extremely clever educational system they have introduced. With noteworthy skill they rely upon mass psychology. The army of Frederick, composed of mercenaries and the scum of the population, had to be kept together for its mechanical tasks by pipe-clay drill and thrashings. That is no longer possible in an army formed on the basis of a civic duty and placing much greater demands upon the individual. This was clearly recognized at once by men like Scharnhorst and Gneisenau,[1] whose army reorganization began
- ↑ The men that reorganized the entire Prussian army system after the Prussian army had been shattered at Jena by Napoleon, in 1806. [Translator.]
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