I mean it worked really well until the ottoman empire stopped expanding. They operated by taking orphans from recently conquered areas and conscripting them. Once the new piece of land became more incorporated and there weren’t enough orphans anymore they’d have to move on to the next place. Once expansion stopped for a long enough period of time they had to reform the Janissaries into a hereditary organization which both eroded their effectiveness in battle, and gave them political power.
Basically every single Ottoman institution was based around the assumption of conquest. And, to be fair, they continually expanded their borders for 400 years. Their decline took another 200 years after that. Liberal capitalism is only 200 years old and its already starting to decline so the ottomans were pretty baller by comparison.
I mean it worked really well until the ottoman empire stopped expanding. They operated by taking orphans from recently conquered areas and conscripting them. Once the new piece of land became more incorporated and there weren’t enough orphans anymore they’d have to move on to the next place. Once expansion stopped for a long enough period of time they had to reform the Janissaries into a hereditary organization which both eroded their effectiveness in battle, and gave them political power.
Basically every single Ottoman institution was based around the assumption of conquest. And, to be fair, they continually expanded their borders for 400 years. Their decline took another 200 years after that. Liberal capitalism is only 200 years old and its already starting to decline so the ottomans were pretty baller by comparison.