Tactics – Episode 13: Early Modern Era

In the Early Modern Era, war stopped being just muscle and blood—it became a mind game.

Machiavelli saw war and politics as inseparable. Gustavus Adolphus transformed battlefields with speed, mobility, and precision. As old empires clung to outdated tactics, a new breed of commanders turned war into a science of movement, supply, and deception.

Strategy wasn’t just born—it evolved. And those who failed to evolve were crushed.