Works cited for general military history and scholarly sources.
Aelianus, Tacticus. The Tactics of Aelian, comprising the military system of the Grecians. London: Cox and Baylis, 1814.
Eltis, David. The Military Revolution in Sixteenth-century Europe. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1995.
Mears, John A. „The Emergence of the Standing Professional Army in Seventeenth-Century Europe.” Social Science Quarterly 50, no. 1 (June 1969), pp. 106-115.
Mears, John A. “The Thirty Years’ War, the ‘General Crisis’, and the Origins of a Standing Professional Army in the Habsburg Monarchy.” Central European History 21, no. 2 (June 1988), pp. 122-141.
Montross, Lynn. War Through the Ages. New York: Harper, 1960.
Oman, Charles. A History of the Art of War in the 16th Century. London: Methuen, 1937.
Oman, Charles. History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages. Vol. 2. New York: Burt Franklin, 1924.
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Rempe, Martin. “Cultural Brokers in Uniform: The Global Rise of Military Musicians and Their Music.” Itinerario 41, No. 2 (2017), pp. 327-352.
Roberts, Michael. “The Military Revolution 1560-1660: An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the Queen’s University of Belfast.” Belfast: Marjory Boyd, 1956.
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