By the fifteenth century the Swiss method of warfare, in which
disciplined foot soldiers fought in tightly formed units, was being
imitated. The Germans and Spanish took notice when in 1479 Archduke
Maximilian and his victorious Flemish infantrymen used their long
pikes to prevent the mounted French knights from charging. The era
of modern warmaking was at hand.
In this last volume of his classic history of the art of war,
Hans Delbruck considers new developments: the use of gunpowder, the
invention of firearms, and the employment of noisy large cannon
that shot stone and, later, iron balls. After reviewing the
establishment of a European infantry, Delbruck discusses the
transformation of loose confederations of knights into cavalry
(well developed by the last Huguenot wars), the organization of
fighting mercenaries (followed by wives and prostitutes), and the
changing of mercenary bands into standing armies.
"The Dawn of Modern Warfare" is colored by larger-than-life
personalities: Niccolo Machiavelli, the theoretician of the new art
of war; Maurice of Orange, renovator of the art of drill and father
of military discipline; Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, perfecter of
infantry tactics; Oliver Cromwell of England, reorganizer of a
citizen militia into a professional army; and Frederick the Great
and Napoleon Bonaparte, military strategists par excellence.
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