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The Lion of the North and the Birth of Modern WarfareIn 1630, a thirty-six-year-old Swedish king landed on the coast of Germany with fewer than 15,000 men, facing the mightiest military power in Europe. Within two years, Gustavus II Adolphus had shattered the myth of Habsburg invincibility, revolutionized the art of war, and transformed his poor, peripheral kingdom into a great power.