Round 8: Tossup 11

This military force abandoned Swedish-style cantonal recruitment in one of many policy shifts chronicled in a 2006 Christopher Clark book that disputes “teleological” histories. This force eschewed “shock tactics” for “fire in advancing” in a victory that ended a four year period in which “gap theory” justified its funding over the Progress Party’s veto. This force’s independence from parliament under an 1850 constitution is credited with starting what some historians call the (*) “special path.” A general who commanded this force for 30 years ran the first modern war games (10[1])and outfitted it (10[1])with breech-loading needle-guns. This force was said to represent (10[1])“not a country with an army, but an army with a country.” (10[1])For 10 points, in what military did Junker (“YOON-ker”) officers serve under Moltke the Elder? ■END■

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