Expanding logistical capacity allowed armies to grow and increased the forces states could put into the field. Revolutionary warfare brought practices used elsewhere into European fighting, contributing to its brutality. The Seven Years War had already developed toward this larger scale of warfare. The Revolutionary Wars pushed that expansion further, while France sustained its effort at a pace that eventually exhausted it.
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Logistical growth and the scale of Revolutionary armies
The growth of logistical capacity helped Revolutionary France field larger armies, extending changes already visible during the Seven Years War.