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endurance for long marches over several days, freezing camps for weeks on end even when not on campaign, and terrible conditions on-campaign with no beds, little sleep, and constant military vigilance requires absolute prime physical fitness. In war conditions you can't control things like weather or onslaught, you have no choice but to maintain the best possible fitness of your soldiers no matter what. even Julius Caesar filled his diaries 80% with worries about food supply lines. Yes, they ate disgusting food but it was chunky beef and beef broth and hard tack and beer, and even in the worst of times each individual soldier was allotted several kgs per day, or else desu
