How And Why Did Recruitment And Training Change

Question 1

What was the major change in 1500-1700?

Answer 1

Shift towards a more permanent and professional army

Question 2

What where some continuities in recruitment ?

Answer 2

Commissioners of Array sent into counties to muster local civilian men for the armies

Question 3

Were the English civil wars a catalyst for change?

Answer 3

Yes as both sides tried desperately to enlist men they had to find more effective ways of recruitment

Question 4

What where the methods originally used in the civil wars? What was the issue with this

Answer 4

King sent commissioners of Array and parliament sent officials but it tended to make lots of local armies reluctant to fight outside of their local boundaries
Also failed to provide sufficient numbers

Question 5

What did both sides end up doing to try and fix this issue?

Answer 5

Conscription- in the areas they controlled they compelled men to fight it lead to increased troop numbers but they were poorly trained so it was not uncommon for units to desert

Question 6

What was seen for the first time here ? ( think methods of recruitment)

Answer 6

Propaganda to encourage men to fight and volunteer, this is the first time it was used

Question 7

What was the biggest change in recruitment? (Think what, when, who and what’s new)

Answer 7

New model army, 1645, Oliver Cromwell
More professional, national and permanent /standing army (exists even in peacetime)