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The Enlightened Idea of the Nation Under Arms
The leviamas, through this massive, massive army of napoleon, led to the sort of war that rumbled through for the next two centuries in europe. It provoked a counter reformation from the germans, iso a counter enlightenment from the german. By the end of the nineteenth century, the kind of french revolutionary idea of the nation under arms is replicated across almost all o europe with systems of conscription. And thereafter, until they go towards their dotage, they are reservists. This kind of altered relationship between the individual and society, focused on the state's obligations and rights to demand military service has only changed in the last 30 years.