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Firepower - How Weapons Shaped Warfare (Hardcover)
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Firepower - How Weapons Shaped Warfare (Hardcover)
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The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without
considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed
historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of military technology from
the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era --
five-hundred-year-long "age of firepower" during which the
evolution of weaponry transformed the conduct of warfare in the
West. Weapons technology had always influenced warfare. But the
introduction of gunpowder weapons at the close of the Middle Ages
made military technology the largest single factor shaping
warfare's tactics, strategy, and logistics. Over the five centuries
leading up to World War II, the art of war revolved around the
ever-more-effective delivery of firepower, and the driving force of
weapons development was the compulsion to make that possible. But
for centuries, even as it became more effective, military weaponry
remained simple and affordable enough that nearly any state could
afford to equip a respectable army; weapons could be used and used
again until they physically wore out. That all changed, very
suddenly, around 1870. Widespread industrialization and rapid
advances in metallurgy and chemistry meant that by the start of
World War I, only a handful of great powers could afford to
manufacture their own weapons. Revolutions in military technology,
in short, triggered a revolution in the structure of power in the
West, significantly reducing the number of nations that could act
assertively in international politics -- and reducing the others to
a condition of permanent subordination. Going beyond the
battlefield to consider the profound political and social contexts
of armed conflict, Firepower ultimately reveals how the evolution
of weapons technology, and the uses to which it has been put, have
together transformed human history.
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