ABSTRACT
There are four countries which it is possible to study in this way, France, England, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. On the plan of absolute figures, for the armies' strength and the casualties, we can attempt to make a summary of their movement for four of the countries studied from the twelfth century to 1925. Although it is lower than the total for all of the previous centuries taken all together, nevertheless its stunning size, especially when it is remembered that it is only for one quarter century, is evident. The means that within the centuries studied there is no continuous trend, according to the tables; after an increase from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries both figures are less in the nineteenth. In such an interpretation the results are similar to results obtained in our study of the movement of the magnitude of war in the history of Greece, Rome, and the other European countries.
