[PDF] Special Issue Beyond The Military Revolution eBook

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1350307734

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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 : 22,24 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521800792

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This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.

Author : Clifford J Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0429975899

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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 : 48,43 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052111151X

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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 : 38,15 MB
Release : 2001-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309075556

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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 : Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0691178143

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A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.

Author : Randall Wakelam
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813180279

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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.