Discussion
Which of the following thinkers rejected the old condottieri system and favoured the idea of national troops ?
Answer: B
The answer is Niccolo Machiavelli.
The condottieri were mercenary captains whom Italian states hired to fight their wars. In The Prince and The Art of War Machiavelli condemned mercenaries as disunited, ambitious and faithless, and argued that a state should rely on its own citizen soldiers. As secretary of the Florentine Republic he put this into practice by organising a Florentine militia in 1506.
Giulio Douhet was the Italian theorist of air power in the 1920s, Liddell Hart (spelt 'Liddle' in the paper) the British writer of the indirect approach, and Clausewitz the Prussian theorist of war and politics. None of them was concerned with the condottieri system, which had long disappeared by their time.
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