Planning production for war has never been an unusual matter. Even during the feudal dynasties, they followed vague principles of planned production to determine the quantity of weapons and provisions needed for war.
However, organized and large-scale planned production for military needs truly materialized only during the decades of the Great Revolution.
When the revolutionary government issued mobilization orders to Paris and all of France, all factories, scientists, and workers in Paris followed the revolutionary government's orders for large-scale production. In just a few days, the entire Paris transformed into a large arsenal, providing the revolutionary army with a huge amount of weapons and equipment, enabling them, who initially had bare hands, to stand against the anti-feudal coalition.
Of course, the war mobilization by the revolutionary government was just the dawn in the history of planned mobilization.
