
Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)
School of War
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The Transformation of Chinese Warfare
In the spring and autumn period, warfare was relatively small scale. The armies typically didn't number more than 10,000 people. By contrast, by the warring states period, we witnessed a transformation in the way war was waged. What we saw emerge then is mass conscript armies that used new technologies like the crossbow.
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