Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Ryan Long"
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@Jacob K The reason martial arts are so big in the Far East is because they invented the first form of "gun control,' by outlawing swords in the hands of peasants. Guns were considered very bad in the old days, because the elites had the monopoly on swords and body armor. With the advent of the firearm, you could assemble and train a peasant army in a matter of weeks, and destroy conventional armies of the day.
The NEXT level up from peasants with guns was CONSCRIPTION. Mandatory draft for all able-bodied men. The other nations in Europe were led by aristocrats, and the rank and file were "volunteers" from the prisons. Napoleon Bonaparte changed all that with the draft. That was why it was so hard to beat him. If he lost 100,000 men, which his enemies couldn't afford, he'd just go draft a whole bunch more.
Bonaparte also astounded and confounded his enemies with a more mobile army, by the expedient of a faster drum beat for the march AND the concept of foraging off conquered lands, rather than securing supply lines. This was what eventually got him beat in Russia and Spain. In Russia, because the Russians burned every square foot of land in his path before he got there, and in Spain, because his rape-and-pillage ways enraged the countryside. He needed half his army just to guard his supply lines, and he couldn't forage, because groups of foragers were captured, tortured (BRUTALLY) and killed by Spanish Guerrillas.
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