Ottoman empire

Little value for human life
Zhukov read a lot of books on the Ottomans and inspired his human waves stategy from them

>>1893360
It was a mess that led to poor industrialization, economic diversification, and widespread poverty. They essentially drafted a disproportionate number of their men, usually Turks, but other ethnicities too in their armies

>>1893379
fuck off haha

>>1893360
Blood tax

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People from the balkans that "willingly" died for our cause and a steady stream of new recruits from Transoxiana of noble turkic steppe warriors ready to get some of that European punani.

>>1893474
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>>1893474
You're supposed to say something about the Ottomans being the "successors to Rome" which was a "brave warlike society that was patriotic and proud so it could muster lots of patriots to field large armies."

>>1893360
Big part of population was in army. Ottomans were from nomandic people. In nomandic societies everyone except women,kids fought. In later years they expanded a lot so they had access to more population.