what does it actually mean when you say that Dorne only has 25,000 men who can be called to fight? if there’s a major war, could they not just find another few thousand men to arm anyway, and just eat the consequences in diminished manpower/labor later on after the crisis is over?

It means that Dorne doesn’t have the resources to arm, armor, feed, and supply more than that, because they are a thinly-peopled medieval state without the state capacity in finance, bureaucracy, communications, and logistics that early modern nation-states developed. 

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