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In Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler predicted that “Th e place of the permanent armies as we know them will gradually be taken by professional forces of volunteer war-keen soldiers, and from millions we shall r evert to hundreds of thousands ” 1 Th e purpose of this short essay is to evaluate that prediction.
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Spengler, Oswald. 1922. Der Untergang des Abendlandes. Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte. Zweiter Band. München.
Spengler, Oswald. 1927. The Decline of the West. New York.
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Bacevich, A.J. (2018). The Design of Armies. In: Fink, S., Rollinger, R. (eds) Oswald Spenglers Kulturmorphologie. Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14041-0_13
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