Historian Gunther E. Rothenberg has emphasized the non-combat dimension of the conflict , whereby the Habsburgs built Building up military communities that protected Defending their borders and produced Creating a steady flow of well-trained , motivated soldiers .

the british had some 50,000 well-trained Education_teaching and well-equipped Supply troops : mostly british india troops of the indian expeditionary force d together with the 13th ( western ) division of the british army forming Cause_to_amalgamate the mesopotamia expeditionary force .