Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals by Hector

In reply to scifihughf.

@Scifihughf,

Also, I wouldn't exactly call Czarist Russia a military powerhouse (although the contrary narrative made famous by Stalin on the left and i guess by some modern day Russian imperialists on the right, that they kept getting rolled by stronger neighbors, isn't true either). They won some and lost some (and lost some against substantially smaller powers, including Sweden in the 17th c and Japan in 1905).