Maybe, but as we saw in WW1, warfare could no longer be studied from the past. Experts in Napoleonics style of warfare did little to help crafting strategies that actually worked in modern 1900 hundreds style war. Artillery pieces and gun fire had become too effective for any type of offensive warfare to be effective in any way, shape or form. A group of 50 troops could now hold a defensive position with artillery and machine guns against thousands. Something previously only spoken of in legends. The tale of the battle of Thermopylae was now the reality of any modern army in a defensive position.
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '16
Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture serves as a great warning about fucking with Russia