“Modern War begins after Westphalia.”
“Westphalia Gave The State A Monopoly on War.”
“Through all of history families, clans, cities, ethnic groups, religions, private companies (conquest of india) … fought wars.”
“The Church lost it’s ability to conduct warfare in Europe”
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-29 21:11:45 UTC
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@Advanced_COBOL
@curtdoolittle 1. Treaty of Westphalia is hardly unique.
2. The whole arc of state building in the middle ages was to arrogate war making to the central government, that is, to abolish private war. That process was largely done by turn of the 16th century.
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