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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP12 Apr 2024 4:38 p.m. PST

… – a ‘military revolution'?


"The 16th and 17th century was a period of significant change in the character of war. The drivers accounting for these changes were not all based in military reforms, despite Western Europe being engaged almost continuously in war. While tactical applications is interesting, it was the beginnings of some profound changes in the development of warfare; the professional military, the standing army, scale of warfare and subsequent emergence of the state (Crown) owning the monopoly on violence and the arrival of proper naval forces…"


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huevans01114 Apr 2024 7:43 a.m. PST

I always figured that Louis XIV was the driving force behind that transformation of the military from a small, mercenary "rent-an-army" purveyed by military contractors like Wallenstein to a conscripted, massive national army.

The normal "army" in the 1640's was about division-sized – 10-20k men.

By the Nine Years War, armies on the battlefield were 4 or 5 times the size.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP14 Apr 2024 3:16 p.m. PST

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