Snapphanar and power states: insurgency and the transformation of war in Sweden and Denmark 1643-1645 = Snapphanareita ja mahtivaltioita

"The thesis argues that Torstensson’s War between Sweden and Denmark in 1643–1645 indicates a transformation of war in the field of insurgency and irregular warfare. This argument emerges from content analysis applied to primary source evidence. The thesis aims for a qualified and nuanced appra...

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1. Verfasser: Bäckström, Olli 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Joensuu University of Eastern Finland 2018
Schriftenreihe:Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in social sciences and business studies 180
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Zusammenfassung:"The thesis argues that Torstensson’s War between Sweden and Denmark in 1643–1645 indicates a transformation of war in the field of insurgency and irregular warfare. This argument emerges from content analysis applied to primary source evidence. The thesis aims for a qualified and nuanced appraisal of the nature and limits of the proposed transformation of war. The thesis is based on archive sources as well as contemporaneous printed literature. Before discussing Torstensson’s War, the thesis illustrates the institutions and structures of warfare in early modern Scandinavia. The origins of the war did not emerge from irregular warfare or any endemic conflict in the Danish-Swedish borderlands. Sweden made some preparations to muster and arm peasant levies in the coming war. The Swedish government allowed its generals to treat enemy peasants as hostile combatants if they saw reason to do so. Both the Swedes and the Danes used ploys or stratagems to overcome fortified places. Many of these stratagems involved the infiltration of regular soldiers disguised as peasants. The Danish government was materially ill-prepared for war, and it had great difficulties in arming the peasant levies. Both Sweden and Denmark used propaganda and disinformation to affect the opposing nation’s commonalty, although much of the propaganda and information warfare were directed to international audiences. The small war in Holstein and Bremen was conducted mainly by regular Danish forces that were often joined by local militiamen and insurgents. The main Swedish tools for fighting the insurgency and small war in Holstein and Bremen were the mobile armies led by Helmut Wrangel and Hans Königsmarck. The Swedish government made some preparations for counterinsurgency in Scania [...]."
Beschreibung:Mit Zusammenfassung in finnischer Sprache
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (357 Seiten)
ISBN:9789526129020

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