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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... , created a countering doctrine which , as Bailes puts it , served " to reinforce the sense of an insular and imperial tradition ” within Britain . The result was a distinctly British response to the technical Preface xiii.
Keith Neilson Ronald Haycock. The result was a distinctly British response to the technical changes of the 1880s and 1890s , but one which contained competing elements of Continental and Imperial doctrine . Britain did not enter the Boer ...
... result was that the Royal Navy's performance in World War II was undistinguished , since the two technologies which the Royal Navy had decided largely to ignore turned out to be the dominant ones . If technology and choices of ...
... result , ownership of a horse was reserved for the few , and the use of horses in war meant an often invidious distinction between privileged cavalry and the poor infan- trymen . Nevertheless , it is worth remembering that across the ...
... result was an oddly ambigu- ous resolution of the long - standing antipathy between cavalry and infantry . Both found themselves subordinated to the grubby dictates of the market and to the masters of the marketplace with whom neither ...
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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 |