commissariat
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- description
- A system for supplying food and provisions to an army, explicitly noted as non-existent in the ancient times described in the text.
- function
- army provisioning
- status_in_context
- non-existent
- time_period_relevance
- modern
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- contrasted_withSupply Trains
- description
- The ancient lack of a commissariat is explicitly contrasted with the 'huge supply trains' common in modern armies.
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- There was no commissariat, as we know the word, in those days. King Saul and his Captain of the host, Abner, would never have dreamed of the huge supply trains which nowadays accompany an army.
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-01T21:10:31.488Z
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