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That is, how can a situation where wars are fought according to certain rules by relatively small, exclusively professional armies be preserved against the ideas of levee en masse and national struggle that emerged out of the French Revolution?

And, so the discussion doesn't get too de-railed, when I say the 18th century status quo, I mean what I typed above, not the general situation of agrarianism and aristocracy. Unless those things end up being necessary to what I'm talking about, of course.
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