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So the "heroic mindset" has never wholly disappeared and wasn't such a pre-eminent factor in pre-modern warfare as certain people have presented it as. Quelle surprise.

Not to mention that the "heroic mentality" of medieval warfare died precisely because of gunpowder weapons, which enabled the creation of large professional armies, similar to the Roman model but easier to raise. And of course any proto-state which banned the use of gunpowder to preserve the...