The use of a groomed children brought into the Empire, castrated, and put in a very specialized military unit with heavy indoctrination. He was describing them like it was a mass program of rape of men that were then conscripted into generic soldiers who were some sort of zombie like soldiers.
Thing is:
used as disposable footsoldiers.
That part doesn't make sense. The Jannisaries were elite soldiers... and that would make sense given heavy indoctrination, long-term training, and total isolation from anything outside of the military. I wouldn't call them "disposable". If anything they would be less disposable than many other Imperial troops and levies.
When you invest that much into training, you expect a high return.
He's referring to the young boys abducted by the Ottomans for use in the Jannisaries.
Abducted as young as 3, raped, forcefully converted to islam, castrated and then used as disposable footsoldiers.
Okay, that makes more sense.
The use of a groomed children brought into the Empire, castrated, and put in a very specialized military unit with heavy indoctrination. He was describing them like it was a mass program of rape of men that were then conscripted into generic soldiers who were some sort of zombie like soldiers.
Thing is:
That part doesn't make sense. The Jannisaries were elite soldiers... and that would make sense given heavy indoctrination, long-term training, and total isolation from anything outside of the military. I wouldn't call them "disposable". If anything they would be less disposable than many other Imperial troops and levies.
When you invest that much into training, you expect a high return.