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Imagining Future War - The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880-1914 (Hardcover)
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Imagining Future War - The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: War, Technology, and History
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Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th
century forced military professionals and educated civilians to
envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age
where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance
on the world stage. Antulio J. Echevarria II offers a comparative
study of these predictions to assess who "got it right" and why. He
concludes that professionals were particularly adept at predicting
the warfare of the immediate future by framing their discussions in
terms of solving tactical problems, but they were much less
successful at thinking of the long-term. Unburdened by the
necessity of strategic problem-solving, educated amateurs were
allowed more flexibility to imagine the long-term future of
warfare, and, at times, proved to be remarkably accurate.
Echevarria organizes his study by comparing visions of future wars
on land, at sea, undersea, and in air. In each instance
professionals and amateurs had their own distinctive imaginings.
Among the notable speculators included in this book are science
fiction author H.G. Wells and military theorist Ivan Bloch. This
approach to the study of warfare is one of those rare examples of a
book that can appeal to and inform a wide cross-section of readers.
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