Examining military technologies in their historical context and the present centered on the Revolution in Military Affairs and Military Transformation, Black then forecasts possible future trends.
Examining military technologies in their historical context and the present centered on the Revolution in Military Affairs and Military Transformation, Black then forecasts possible future trends.
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of more than 100 books including Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871 (IUP, 2011) and War and the Cultural Turn. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.
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Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Key Themes 1. Early Modern Western Warships: Technologies of Power Projection and Lethality 2. Gunpowder Technology, 1490-1800 3. Firepower, Steamships, Railways, Telegraphs, Radio: Technologies of Killing, Logistics, Command, and Control, 1775-1945 4. The Internal Combustion Engine: The Technology of Decentralized Power, 1910-2013 5. A New Sphere: Air Power, 1903-2013 6. Revolution, Transformation, and the Present 7. Into the Future Conclusions Postscript Notes Selected Further Reading Index
Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Key Themes 1. Early Modern Western Warships: Technologies of Power Projection and Lethality 2. Gunpowder Technology, 1490-1800 3. Firepower, Steamships, Railways, Telegraphs, Radio: Technologies of Killing, Logistics, Command, and Control, 1775-1945 4. The Internal Combustion Engine: The Technology of Decentralized Power, 1910-2013 5. A New Sphere: Air Power, 1903-2013 6. Revolution, Transformation, and the Present 7. Into the Future Conclusions Postscript Notes Selected Further Reading Index
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