Ep 184: Alexander Burns on the Dawn of the Modern Battlefield

School of War · Mar 14, 2025 · 43m

Alexander Burns, Assistant Professor of History at Franciscan University and author of Infantry in Battle 1733-1783 (From Reason to Revolution), joins the show to talk about how combat evolved in the decades between Marlborough and Napoleon.

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Times

• 01:45 Introduction

• 02:19 1733

• 06:20 Infantry in battle

• 10:54 Achieving results

• 14:19 Tactical effectivness

• 18:40 Prussia

• 24:17 More than fear

• 29:45 Early nationalism

• 33:12 American evolution

• 38:50 Drones and prestige

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