Frederick the Great is one of history's most famous and adept military commanders. He's not Napoleon, but pretty damn close. The 18th-century Prussian king is credited with transforming a ...

Christoph von Manstein, a Prussian military man ... Monstrous enough, the military ethics of the 18th century considered captured territory subject to looting by default. But at home, a soldier ...

In other words, clear military defeat wrote the end of these stories for the ... burden the next as it became distracted by a new conflict. The comparison between 18th-century Prussia and 21st-century ...