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Standing forces of roughly 1500 to 1774: the Ottoman Empire's permanent state institutions, reformed European-style forces after the gunpowder transition, and colonial-era expeditionary forces. Belongs here: a force organized as a centralized state institution before the age of national conscription. Does not belong here: a mass conscript or explicitly national army raised after 1774, which belongs to Modern.

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