Men, Machines & WarWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1988 M11 30 - 219 páginas Using examples from the last two centuries, this collection of essays discusses the close links between technology and war. In the opening essay, distinguished historian William H. McNeill demonstrates the extent to which military technology has often led to differentiations among people, both within and between societies. The other studies examine various aspects of weapons technology, drawing on the history of the armed forces of Britain, Prussia, and Australia, among others. Some of these illustrate how the adoption of new weaponry frequently depended as much on national pride and party politics as it did on the purely technical merits of the weapons involved; that financial considerations became increasingly primary in technological developments in British army after World War I; and that decisions made prior to 1939 about the aviation technology to be developed for military purposes largely determined what kind of the RAF was able to fight. The chapter by Dr. G.R. Lindsay, the Chief of the Operational Research and Analysis Establishment at the Department of National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, makes the case that, with nuclear weapons added to the scene, the impact of technology on international security has never been as great as at present, and that the competition of nations seeking the technological edge in weaponry threatens to destabilize the precarious balance that has existed since 1945. |
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... command structure . A blend of new technology and new organization yielded new doctrine . In the interwar period , the new technology that World War I had created provided the stuff of doctrinal debate . As Graham notes , the tank could ...
... command technology " ( that is , the linkage of need and supply through government spending ) came to dominate the Royal Navy's search for technology in the years before 1914 . The effect of this on the Royal Navy was profound . Its ...
... command technologies have increased the linkage between the civilian and military economies which Eisenhower recognized a quarter century ago . Armies themselves have undergone a significant evolution . Rapidly changing and more lethal ...
... command . Some systematic change in technology was required , and this came only after the lapse of centuries with the discovery of gunpowder . Technical barriers due to material limitations were powerfully reinforced by the ...
... command technology and deliberate invention — the kind we can glimpse in Hellenistic times , when catapults were new , that revived between 1450 and 1490 , when France and Burgundy called on the gun founders of the Low Countries to make ...
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Observations on the Dialectics of British Tactics 190445 | 49 |
The Royal Navy and Technological Change 18151945 | 75 |
The Influence of Technology on Airpower 191945 | 93 |
Artillery from 1815 to 1914 | 113 |
Technology Society and International Security Since 1945 | 153 |
Australias Owen Gun Story | 183 |
Index | 215 |