Special Issue: Beyond the Military Revolution
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Page : 263 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2014
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Page : 263 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1350307734
The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. Genuinely global in range, this up-to-date and wide-ranging account provides fresh historiographical insights into this crucial period in world history.
Author : MacGregor Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521800792
This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.
Author : Jeremy Black
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
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Author : Todd Andrlik
Publisher : Journal of the American Revolu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594162787
The fourth annual compilation of selected articles from the online Journal of the American Revolution.
Author : Clifford J Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0429975899
This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.
Author : Keith L. Shimko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052111151X
This book is a comprehensive study of the Iraq Wars in the context of the revolution in military affairs debate.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2001-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309075556
This report surveys opportunities for future Army applications in biotechnology, including sensors, electronics and computers, materials, logistics, and medical therapeutics, by matching commercial trends and developments with enduring Army requirements. Several biotechnology areas are identified as important for the Army to exploit, either by direct funding of research or by indirect influence of commercial sources, to achieve significant gains in combat effectiveness before 2025.
Author : Randall Wakelam
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813180279
Compared to armies and navies, which have existed as professional fighting services for centuries, the technology that makes air forces possible is much newer. As a result, these services have had to quickly develop methods of preparing aviators to operate in conditions ranging from peace or routine security to full-scale war. The first book to address the history and scope of air power professionalization through learning programs, Educating Air Forces offers valuable new insight into strategy and tactics worldwide. Here, a group of international experts examine the philosophies, policies, and practices of air service educational efforts in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the UK. The contributors discuss the founding, successes, and failures of European air force learning programs between the Great War and World War II and explore how the tense Cold War political climate influenced the creation, curriculum, and results of various programs. They also consider how educational programs are adapting to soldiers' needs and the demands of modern warfare. Featuring contributions from eminent scholars in the field, this volume surveys the learning approaches globally employed by air forces in the past century and evaluates their effectiveness. Educating Air Forces reveals how experiential learning and formal education are not only inextricably intertwined, but also necessary to cope with advances in modern warfare.
Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317972929
Postmodern War poses an urgent challenge to the ways we conceptualize and actually wage war in our high technology age. Computerization and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in warfare spawning both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric which disguises their apocalyptic potential in catch phrases like smart weapons and bloodless combat. Postmodern War examines: * contemporary practices of war, defining and critiquing trendy military doctrines hidden behind phrases like Infowar and Cyberwar * the roles of those who manipulate high technology, those who are manipulated by it, and those who are increasingly merging with it * the role of peace activists and socially responsible scientists in countering dangerous assumptions made by a postmodern military. Far from opposing technological change, however, Gray finds new hopes for peace in the twenty-first century. Provocative and far-reaching in its scope, the book argues that postmodern war has left us poised between the most dreadful and most utopian of alternatives: we may eradicate either the human race or war itself.