This just came to me: during peace between Hab/Hungary and Turkey, the borders were never a safe place to be. The Turks had special looting troops called akkandji that got no sallary, so the only way to survive was to raid the enemy's border (sometimes even getting to the heart of the country). They raided even during peace times, and their effect was enormous, cause, for example, if a country is constantly harassed for 50 years then its population won't put up much of a fight, they just want it all to end.
