Well, up to some point. If the Prussian system was so wildly successful in the West it was because it fit so well the new concept of Nation-States and the new t

Well, up to some point. If the Prussian system was so wildly successful in the West it was because it fit so well the new concept of Nation-States and the new technic of the printing press. I see this article as symptomatic of the situation having radically changed between wars now being unthinkable between nuclear-armed powers (and their close allies), and more recently the rise of the the World Wide Web. I would, however, not be so dismissive of Nation-States and the need of citizen endoctrination as the author is : you can easily end up with something way worse, like an Empire or tribal chaos ! (But then the author seems to be focused on the USA, which has always been a weird blend of Nation and Empire...)