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“The Limits to Revolutions in Military Affairs: Maurice of Nassau, the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600), and the Legacy.”
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"Revolutions in Military Affairs" (RMAs) currently interest both historians and strategic analysts, but how exactly do they occur, why do they prove so decisive, and what (if any) are their limits? This essay seeks answers through the detailed study of one critical element of an earlier "Revolution in Military Affairs"—infantry volley fire—tracing its invention, first in Japan in the 1560s and then in the Dutch Republic in the 1590s, and its first use in combat at the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600 by a Dutch army commanded by Maurice of Nassau. It then examines the current RMA in the light of that case study.
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“Indeed, in his letter first describing the technique, Willem Lodewijk asked his cousin Maurice not to show the new technique too widely 'because it may cause and give occasion for people to laugh.'”
From The Arquebus Volley Technique in China, c. 1560: Evidence from the Writings of Qi Jiguang (2015) · cites this paper as Parker 2007, 339
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“This book influenced not only Willem Lodewijk but also his cousin Maurice of Nassau, who read it on campaign and used it to reorganize the Dutch army.”
From The Arquebus Volley Technique in China, c. 1560: Evidence from the Writings of Qi Jiguang (2015) · cites this paper as Parker 2007
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“Parker's painstaking reconstruction of the emergence of the volley technique in Holland is compelling, but there are hints in other European sources that the technique emerged earlier.”
From The Arquebus Volley Technique in China, c. 1560: Evidence from the Writings of Qi Jiguang (2015) · cites this paper as Parker 2007
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“Similarly, Parker himself cites a 1579 passage by an Englishman named Thomas Digges who suggested that musketeers should 'after the old Romane manner make three or four several fronts, with convenient spaces for the first to retire and unite himselfe with the second, and both these if occasion so require, with the third; the shot [musketeers] having their convenient lanes continually during the”
From The Arquebus Volley Technique in China, c. 1560: Evidence from the Writings of Qi Jiguang (2015) · cites this paper as Parker 2007, 337
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“it was that Dutch system that, once it had proven its value, was then copied throughout Europe.”
From The Arquebus Volley Technique in China, c. 1560: Evidence from the Writings of Qi Jiguang (2015) · cites this paper as Parker 2007
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“Yet, as Parker notes, it's one thing to come up with the idea of volley fire and quite another to implement it systematically.”
From The Arquebus Volley Technique in China, c. 1560: Evidence from the Writings of Qi Jiguang (2015) · cites this paper as Parker 2007
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Metadata
- Authors
- Parker, G.
- Corresponding author
- Parker, Geoffrey
- Venue
- The Journal of Military History
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2007-04
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 331-372
- ISSN
- 0899-3718 (ISSN-L)
- 1543-7795
- OpenAlex
- W1974708117
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Military History (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Military History and Strategy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Military history and social perspectives
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Military Strategy and Technology
- Keywords
- Revolution in Military Affairs, Maurice of Nassau, military innovation, early modern warfare
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