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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... Rifles : Soldiers , Technology and the Unification of Germany ( 1975 ) . Ronald Haycock is associate professor and chairman of the War Studies Graduate Programme at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston . President of the ...
... Dennis Showalter , Railroads and Rifles : Soldiers , Technology and the Unification of Germany ( Hamden , Ct .: Archor Books , 1975 ) . on what the Royal Navy needed to counteract the threat 18 Men , Machines , and War.
... rifles , machine guns , field traction steam engines , and ar- moured trains . Innovations of the second era were so great that by the turn of the century they had wrought what G. F. R. Henderson called the " second tactical revolution ...
... rifle in 1851 marked a greater technical advance than the issue of the breechloader in 1866. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , it was characteristically British to fight in line rather than in column . Thus Kinglake ...
... rifles amongst the assaulting swarms . It was closely associated with the rise of offensive doctrine in Europe and was therefore strongest in Britain amongst those who advocated close adherence to Continental models . Of the many ...
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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 |