War Council
Bureaucracy

War Council

war_council_bureaucracy

A supreme military committee responsible for the planning, coordination, and oversight of land forces. The Habsburg Hofkriegsrat and the British War Office represent different answers to the same problem of how to impose strategic direction on armies too large for any single commander to control alone. A funded War Council produces a steady stream of capable officers — but when its budgets are cut, the institutional machinery that identifies and promotes talent breaks down, and army tradition decays.

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Constant effects
Positive effects
With Bureaucracy Maintenance: ×0 at 0% → ×1 at 100%
Negative effects
With Bureaucracy Maintenance: ×1 at 0% → ×0 at 100%
Formula: 1 − Bureaucracy Maintenance

Requires 2

Advances
Institutions

References 6

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Modifier Types

Mentioned in 1

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value = country_economical_base
multiply = 0.004
}
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OR = {
has_embraced_institution = institution:confessionalism
}
}
estates_that_like = { nobles_estate }
estates_that_dislike = { burghers_estate }

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