Giant of the Grand Siècle by John A. Lynn

Questioning widely-held assumptions about state formation and coercion, he argues that this standing army was primarily devoted to border defense, and only rarely to internal repression Book Details

Instead of claiming that a 'military revolution' transformed warfare, Lynn stresses evolutionary change. The portrait that emerges differs from what current scholarship might have predicted. Combining social and cultural emphases with more traditional institutional and operational concerns, this book examines the army in depth, studying recruitment, composition, discipline, motivation, selection of officers, leadership, administration, logistics, weaponry, tactics, field warfare, and siegecraft. Before Vaubans entrance onto the stage of the Grand Sicle, several specific. An 'invisible giant,' the seventeeth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy yet it has received incomplete treatment and is poorly understood. Giant of the Grand Sicle: the French Army, 1610-1715.

Giant of the Grand Siècle by John A. Lynn