Military revolution
The Anglo-Saxon and Western European historical concept of the Military Revolution (English: Military Revolution) was postulated in 1956 by Michael Roberts .
The historiographical approach describes the rapidly advancing development of the army in the middle of the 17th century in predominantly Western Europe based on the following considerations. The Netherlands ( Orange Army Reform ) and Sweden were the first to develop linear tactics (instead of square heaps ), which enabled the efficient use of handguns and placed higher demands on the discipline of the troops. The consequences were new forms of military drill, the professionalisation of officers, battles became decisive, the war had a more devastating effect, armies grew massively.
This led to higher demands on the logistics and organization, which the princely central power could meet better than the estates. Instead of steady preparation and abdication of mercenary armies, if necessary, to put the well in peacetime continuing professional army by. This was an essential step on the way to the state monopoly on the use of force , since private war entrepreneurship was replaced by this.
The political and social consequences were the expansion of the state administration , the expansion of the state financial system, the stabilization of the tax system, and the first attempts at state economic control.
See also
literature
- Michael Roberts: The Military Revolution, 1560–1660, 1956 in: Clifford J. Rogers , ed .: The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe, 1995, Avalon Publishing, pp. 13–36
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Wollschläger: The "Military Revolution" and the German Territorial State with Special Consideration of Brandenburg-Prussia and Saxony, Inaugural Dissertation , 2002, p. 7