2062: How the Austro-Hungarian Military Replaced Personnel Aug 7, 2020

As discussed before, the Austro-Hungarian Empire arranged its troops partly by linguistic background. This policy enacted in the 1860's proved to be difficult to maintain during the Great War however, for two reasons. The first and more obvious was that it made replacements very difficult to manage, or otherwise a troop would have different native linguistic backgrounds. The other issue is that in order for officers to be moved around they would have to learn a new language often; they were given up to 3 years in some cases but even that is often not sufficient, particularly in the case of Hungarian, but also it is a long time for an army to have to wait for proficiency.

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