Excellent piece of work! Your article resonates with me because I touched upon this subject-matter in Chapter 7 of my book "This Is Your Quest" - So You think you are free? A similar phenomenon happened in the middle ages, the Hundred Years' War unintended consequence was the end of the feudal system. The Hundred Years' War between England and France was fought through intermittent conflicts between the two countries that lasted 116 years. The army needed more men to fill its ranks and fight the enemy; so they found new recruits among laborers, who were taught the art of war and acquired in the process new military skills, lifting them from their status of commoner to the rank of military personnel.