### id263995768 hypermilitarized states do not always lead to aggrandizement of warriors > The Warring States basically put the competitors on a war footing, or a "total war" style mobilization. But even then, there were cultural pursuits, huge monuments and palaces, religious rituals, etc. So I'd argue that China wasn't a "military culture" or "minmaxed military power", just state(s) that had been under prolonged and increasingly heavy military mobilization. Certainly neither the Qin nor the rest of China did what popular image painted Sparta or say Klingons, which is everything done for the military and nothing else. - [View Highlight](https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/q3bowq/sparta_wasnt_that_effective_in_war_were_there_any?__readwiseLocation=0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F2%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F5%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A45%2C0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F2%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F5%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A580#:~:text=The%20Warring%20States%20basically%20put%2Cthe%20military%20and%20nothing%20else.) - [[hypermilitarized groups in history#id263995768 hypermilitarized states do not always lead to aggrandizement of warriors|View in Vault]]