Civil wars In Britain, 1640-1646 : military revolution on campaign

Bradley Thomas Gericke (born December 3, 1965) is a military historian and retired United States Army major general who last served as the Deputy Director of Strategy, Plans, and Policy of the Army Staff from July 2019 to April 2022.He received a Master of Military Art and Science degree in strategy from the Army Command and General Staff College in 2001 with a thesis entitled Civil wars in Britain, 1640-1646: military revolution on campaign.

The military organization of nation states and their employment of armies are central aspects of early modern European history. The seventeenth century was particularly a period of transformation that witnessed drastic change in armies' preparation for and execution of military campaigns. To date, historians have tended to overlook military development as it occurred in the British Isles. Yet Britain offers the historian an interesting subject for the examination of first, how emerging ideas of military organization, doctrine, and strategy were transmitted from the European continent; and second, how British soldiers demonstrated their familiarity with contemporary military practice through the conduct of campaigns.
The evidence of military publications within Britain, as well as the experience of British soldiers overseas, indicates that English and Scottish soldiers grappled with the important tenets of the continental military revolution. The campaign strategies employed by British military commanders during the Second Bishops' War of 1640 and the English Civil War of 1642-1646 were undoubtedly complex and reflective of the confused political conditions of the period. Nonetheless, British soldiers attempted to fight and to win using a contemporary, thoroughly European understanding of warfare.