Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 ‘Then was then and now is now’: an overview of change and continuity in late-medieval and early-modern warfare
- 2 Warfare and the international state system
- 3 War and the emergence of the state: western Europe, 1350–1600
- 4 From military enterprise to standing armies: war, state, and society in western Europe, 1600–1700
- 5 The state and military affairs in east-central Europe, 1380–c. 1520s
- 6 Empires and warfare in east-central Europe, 1550–1750: the Ottoman–Habsburg rivalry and military transformation
- 7 Ottoman military organisation in south-eastern Europe, c. 1420–1720
- 8 The transformation of army organisation in early-modern western Europe, c. 1500–1789
- 9 Aspects of operational art: communications, cannon, and small war
- 10 Tactics and the face of battle
- 11 Naval warfare in Europe, c. 1330–c. 1680
- 12 Legality and legitimacy in war and its conduct, 1350–1650
- 13 Conflict, religion, and ideology
- 14 Warfare, entrepreneurship, and the fiscal-military state
- 15 War and state-building
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Ottoman military organisation in south-eastern Europe, c. 1420–1720
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 ‘Then was then and now is now’: an overview of change and continuity in late-medieval and early-modern warfare
- 2 Warfare and the international state system
- 3 War and the emergence of the state: western Europe, 1350–1600
- 4 From military enterprise to standing armies: war, state, and society in western Europe, 1600–1700
- 5 The state and military affairs in east-central Europe, 1380–c. 1520s
- 6 Empires and warfare in east-central Europe, 1550–1750: the Ottoman–Habsburg rivalry and military transformation
- 7 Ottoman military organisation in south-eastern Europe, c. 1420–1720
- 8 The transformation of army organisation in early-modern western Europe, c. 1500–1789
- 9 Aspects of operational art: communications, cannon, and small war
- 10 Tactics and the face of battle
- 11 Naval warfare in Europe, c. 1330–c. 1680
- 12 Legality and legitimacy in war and its conduct, 1350–1650
- 13 Conflict, religion, and ideology
- 14 Warfare, entrepreneurship, and the fiscal-military state
- 15 War and state-building
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The main focus of this chapter's analysis of early-modern Ottoman military practice in the European sphere is the Empire's institutional development and the expansion of its capacity for waging war. A number of developments impacted on the Ottomans in the period between the mid fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, resulting in changes to the bureaucratic structure and procedures supporting military operations. There were substantial shifts in the Empire's geo-political situation; the size and composition of the Ottomans' own armies altered, as did the manner of and methods for waging war; and there were significant changes in the pace of military change amongst the Empire's traditional adversaries, including the Austrians and Hungarians. In response, the bureaucratic structures and procedures supporting Ottoman military operations changed and developed. Because this was an ongoing process it is difficult to pinpoint a particular point of critical change from the experimental and immature phases of military organisational and institutional development, to the achievement of a fully developed institutional infrastructure capable of supporting mass recruitment and multi-seasonal wars, which became typical after c. 1600. It is therefore appropriate to consider the ways in which, in addition to maintaining parity with their European counterparts in terms of weapons technology and battlefield tactics, the Ottomans managed to generate a process of ‘continuous military revolution’ in the organisational, bureaucratic, and institutional aspects of the warfare that was sustained right up to the 1720s.
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- European Warfare, 1350–1750 , pp. 135 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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