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About six weeks of supply is the most a pre-railway army could buy itself by adding carrying capacity, however many wagons it brought.

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war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.

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  1. Bret Devereaux Ancient and military historian specialising in the economy…
    So there are sharp limits to how much extra range an army can get by adding carrying capacity; in practice about a month and a half’s logistics buffer is the maximum that’s possible and even doing that is expensive.

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