| Description |
x, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliographical essay": pages 321-335. |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- History.
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Military history.
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Technology -- History.
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| ISBN |
002933151X |
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