Geoffrey Parker's 1988 revision and expansion of Michael Roberts's Military Revolution thesis — arguing that tactical, operational, and strategic changes in the 16th-17th centuries transformed European warfare and created the fiscal-military state.
Systematized the Military Revolution argument — the combination of firearms, linear tactics, drill, and the trace italienne fortress required larger armies and more money, which required bigger bureaucracies and more taxation, which built the modern European state — making military change the driver of political modernization.
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