Technology and war : from 2000 B.C. to the present / Martin van Creveld.
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TextPublication details: New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, �1989.Description: x, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
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- 002933151X
- U27 C86
- Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, 1990.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-335) and index.
pt. 1. The age of tools, from earliest times to 1500 A.D. -- Field warfare -- Siege warfare -- The infrastructure of war -- Naval warfare -- Irrational technology -- pt. 2. The age of machines, 1500-1830. Field warfare -- Siege warfare -- The infrastructure of war -- Command of the sea -- The rise of professionalism -- pt. 3. The age of systems, 1830-1945. Mobilization warfare -- Land warfare -- Command of the air -- Sea warfare -- The invention of invention -- pt. 4. The age of automation, 1945 to the present. Computerized war -- Nuclear war -- Integrated war -- Make-believe war -- Real war -- Conclusions : the logic of technology and of war.
This text provides an analysis of the impact of technology on warfare throughout the centuries.
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, 1990.
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