What military tradition used to be the best ? The French one at it's peak or the Prussian/German one at it's peak...

if it was a good plan it wouldn't have needed changing

Best military tradition? The best traditions improve on previous best traditions. You have to define a specific timeframe and we'd have to compare contemporaries if you want a non-meme answer.

definitely Sparta. If your tradition becomes a cultural meme, you have already won

Well mid 1700's tradition ?

They changed it because it was a bad plan. It was literally impossible, there was no way to move an army that large as fast as the plan required it.

>The French one at it's peak
French at their peak where Napoleons troops. Everything else was mostly French hiring Swiss mercenaries.

The French seized the first failure and turned it into a complet counter attack, Germany turned a favorable situation into a rout and gave the French soldier a huge morale boost

Retards

Aayyy we all remember the French sending swiss mercenaries to America to help Washington amirite ?

What a load of bullshit, the French had a mighty and well established molitary tradition well before Napoleon

Napoleon basically erased it all and changed it completly

Napoleon was overrated anyways. Lose not just once, but twice in specular fashion.

French...most of our modern military lingo has French origins.

>in specular fashion

That is indeed spectacular, but not in the way you seem to think

Diffrent traditions are better in different contexts. A drafted army would not be a good idea in feudal times, but is a great idea for an industrial state with the ability to train and outfit it's people. Likewise an aristocratic warrior class is a terrible idea for an industrialized nation but a fine tradition for some ancient empire. Similarly the Cult of the Offensive or Defensive will be a better attitude depending upon current technology and geography. Similar statements can be said about practically any military tradition you can think of. You can only compare them to their contemporaries.

Prussians were the masters of tactics and pretty much invented the operational component of warfare, as one would expect from a country located right in the middle of Europe with no natural defences. But their strategy was always lacking, which is what the British excelled at. No surprise given their geo-strategic disposition as a sea power, which allowed them to take things much more slowly. France struck a middle-ground between the two. They're not as vulnerable as the Prussians in their location, but they're not completely separated from hostile powers which caused a more balanced look at things.