¨When the Ottomans had tried to reorganize their [16th century]army
along Western lines in the hope of containing the threat
from Europe, their efforts were doomed because they were
too superficial. To beat Europe at its own game, a conventional
agrarian society would have to transform itself from
top to bottom, and re-create its entire social, economic,
educational, religious, spiritual, political and intellectual
structures.And it would have to do this very quickly, an impossible
task, since it had taken the West almost three hundred
years to achieve this development.
