a general question

[Lagartija Mike]

Does the focus on the personalities and particulars of the Napoleonic era tend to obscure macro issues of military development over the 18th and 19th centuries? Or do those same details provide a crucial lens for examining those changes?

[McLaddie]

Personally, I think some misunderstandings about the relationships between the particulars, personalities and the macro-issues tend to obscure the reasons for the resulting military development.

[Bandit]

Lagartija Mike wrote:

Does the focus on the personalities and particulars of the Napoleonic era tend to obscure macro issues of military development over the 18th and 19th centuries?

Yes.

Lagartija Mike wrote:

Or do those same details provide a crucial lens for examining those changes?

They may, but they seem to obscure it at least as much.

Cheers,

The Bandit

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