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200 10$aWar and technology$b[electronic resource] /$fJeremy Black
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2013
215   $a1 online resource (342 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction: the key themes -- Early modern western warships: technologies of power projection and lethality -- Gunpowder technology, 1490-1800 -- Firepower, steamships, railways, telegraphs, radio: technologies of killing, logistics, command, and control, 1775-1945 -- The internal combustion engine: the technology of decentralized power, 1910-2013 -- A new sphere: air power, 1903-2013 -- Revolution, transformation, and the present -- Into the future -- Conclusions -- Postscript.
330   $aIn this engaging book, Jeremy Black argues that technology neither acts as an independent variable nor operates without major limitations. This includes its capacity to obtain end results, as technology's impact is far from simple and its pathways are by no means clear. After considering such key conceptual points, Black discusses important technological advances in weaponry and power projection from sailing warships to aircraft carriers, muskets to tanks, balloons to unmanned drones-in each case, taking into account what difference these advances made. He addresses not only firepower but a
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