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282 The First Winter of the War far too little training would almost inevitably face problems in leading their troops and who were in no way able to meet the demands of such a varied, indeed sensitive army, was taken into account. After five months of war, not much was left of the ‘old army’. The Hungarian-American historian István Deák has pointed to the fact that in 1915, the Habsburg Army had become ‘a type of militia’, and that as a result of the increasing use of reserve officers, the leadership of this army was also transferred from professional soldiers to ‘civilians in uniform’.682 Indeed, there is nothing more to add to that.