The military revolution at sea
Part of : Το βήμα των κοινωνικών επιστημών ; Vol.Ι, No.37, 2003, pages 59-76
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The article examines the link between the nature of societies, the nature of governments, and the nature of their military activities. Three great military and economic powers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are compared, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands. It is concluded that seapower was most successful in countries with flexible and open social and political systems.
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