September 30, 2013 – 1 Chronicles 27

I think it is a neat idea to have a rotating army, a different army of 24,000 men each month.  For one month a year, a man would have to leave his regular life and living and go a defend the kingdom or attack a nation.  Then he would go back and make a living for 11 months.  A couple of the benefits would be to have fresh men every month, less burn out.  Plus, every man of a certain age would have training in combat in the instance when you might need to have more people involved in defense you wouldn’t be dealing with inexperienced men.

Some of the draw backs would be getting 11 months of rust off your soldiers every month.  The might take 2 weeks to get back into fighting shape and then you only get a good couple weeks out of them.  Plus, you are limited on how far you can send your army since you have to make sure they are back by the time their month is over.  I just thought it was an interesting way to field an army.