![]() Warfare in Western Europe during the 16 th and 17 th century featured significant military, political-strategic, and societal factors that influenced the change in the conduct of warfare. Others such as Jeremy Black, have questioned the value of this period in the development of warfare, the causes of this change and if the period should be referred to as truly ‘revolutionary’. He expanded the original period of time to over two centuries and incorporated further lessons from the Spanish, Hapsburgs and French, emphasised the role of defensive technologies and expanded on the development of naval combat. Other historians added or modified his thesis, such as Geoffrey Parker. It describes 1560-1660 as a period of significant transformation in warfare that contributed to the elevation of Western Europe as a centre of world power. This term was originally from the paper delivered by Michael Roberts in 1955. Robert Barnet, The Theory and Practice of Modern Wars, 1598 Ĭhanges in the ways and means of warfare in Western Europe during the 16 th and 17 th centuries have been referred to as the ‘Military Revolution’. ![]() The wars are much altered since the fiery weapons first came up’ ![]() ‘ Gentlemen: I hear many say, ‘What need so much ado and great charge in caliver, musket, pike and corslet? Our ancestors won many a battle with bows, black bills, and jacks.’ But what think you of that?Ĭaptain: Sir, then was then, and now is now. ![]()
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