*when he wasn’t writing lauded academic and popular books or teaching relatively underprivileged students at a state school.
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If they were not as hyper-specialized for combat in the hills and mountains of Austria, it is because - unlike Hapsburg armies - they had a much wider range of threats and terrain they needed to be able to fight in. Read Chase, Firearms, (2003)
But your tweet neatly sums up the weaknesses of the VDH version: it includes all of the 'Western' victories, but excises all of the failures. He also cuts out any European state which might be inconvenient to this argument.
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E.g. Visigothic Spain, Post-Roman Greece, Hungary writ-large. The more you actually know about the topic, the more the exceptions and caveats - unacknowledged in books like Carnage and Culture - pile up, until they overwhelm and bury the argument.
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And that's the rub - Carnage and Culture is seductively plausible to someone who knows very little about the topic, but obviously flawed for those whose knowledge runs deeper.
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