ABSTRACT
The "Military Revolution" of early modern Europe to a Muslim society: the case of Sa adian Morocco in the sixteenth century. The sole substantive issue raised by Drs. Hall and DeVries was to deny the link posited between technological innovation and military growth in early modern Europe. Although this important point unfortunately remained tucked away in the final paragraph of their "essay review", and remained undeveloped, it nevertheless constitutes one of four general criticisms—;conceptual, chronological and geographical as well as technological—;leveled, both in the essays printed elsewhere, against the analysis of a military revolution in early modern Europe. A consequential conceptual difficulty lies in the link between armies and navies, on the one hand, and "state formation" on the other, in each of these periods of change. In spite of the doubts expressed by Black and others concerning the concept and the precise chronology of the military revolution.
