The Art of War
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Is There a Common Obligation in Military Service?
In many senses, he goes back to the classics and argues that everybody, in order to be a member of the florentine republic, has to be willing to take military service. He is writing at a time when the old feudal systemican call it, that, is collapsing. In italy, in particular, where wealth has grownrfa more rapidly than elsewherean europe,. The er the military class are now putting out their swords for hire to the wealthy cities. And they have, as it were, taken over the conduct of war themselves.
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