t. Chief Grug <|endoftext|> Premodern military &quot;&quot;&quot;history&quot;&quot;&quot; is irrelevant. Alexander invaded the Persian Empire with 40,000 men to decide who would rule 20 million people producing (in 1990 USD) about 9 billion worth of economic output (only a few hundred million if you subtract bare subsistence from the equation, bare subsistence that the state would never profit from). Any given major campaign from the Industrial Revolution to now is more significant. In Operation Dragoon for example, a mid-sized operation in a quaternary theater, the Americans and their allies invaded with 600,000 men and defeated a force of 300,000 to decide the rule of southern France, which comprised also about 20 million people producing hundreds of billions in output (by the same criteria) over a hundred billion (almost none of which was bare subsistence).