Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
He who defends everything, defends nothing.

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The Prussian king whose oblique order and disciplined army made a small northern kingdom into a European great power
The Prussian king whose oblique order and disciplined army made a small northern kingdom into a European great power (1712-1786). Frederick the Great combined Enlightenment intellectualism with ruthless military pragmatism, proving that superior training, tactical innovation, and strategic audacity could overcome massive numerical disadvantage.
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