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Can you elaborate on the bold text please ?!! How is it different ?
It is different in the same way serving under Louis XIII is much different than serving under the French Republic; especially in terms of the relationship that the people had with the Army ! Back then, in the times of the Kings, no one had nearly the same sense of ownership as one does now to their countries; particularly because back then there wasn't a concept of Nation States & hence Nationalism but instead service to the Noble Man whose land you worked on when the King called for War against one Kingdom or the other, one challenger to the throne or the other & one band of Nobles to the other !
At any rate an absence of a refined common collective consciousness most certainly prevented the birth of Nationhood in nearly the same shape or form we now find ourselves in !