Privation in Pursuit of Salvation
Words: 2923 Pages: 10 3834"An army marches on its stomach"—an age-old axiom attributed to both Napoleon Bonaparte and Frederick the Great. Although crystallized into a succinct phrase during the Enlightenment Era, the underlying truth about the nature of expeditionary warfare—that a steady supply of foodstuffs is paramount to all other military considerations—has been understood by military minds since the dawn of man. Surely, the logisticians and civil leaders of Europe were not ignorant of this fact when planning to embark upon a campaign to […]