Most academics working on the military revolution have focused their attention on Western Europe. This Eurocentric view is perhaps understandable, since many indeed seem to be more interested in the Rise of the West than in purely military affairs elsewhere. However, while the European strategists of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, being chiefly concerned with European opponents as they were, experimented with fortifications and linear tactics, their counterparts in the great empires further to the east had other problems on their mind…
Publications of Michael Fredholm
