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Cover: 9781541672963 | Firepower | How Weapons Shaped Warfare | Paul Lockhart | Buch | 2021
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Firepower
How Weapons Shaped Warfare
Buch von Paul Lockhart
Sprache: Englisch

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"The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing ... Lockhart tells the story of military technology from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era --a five-hundred-year-long 'age of firepower' during which the evolution of weaponry transformed the conduct of warfare in the West ... 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"--
"The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing ... Lockhart tells the story of military technology from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era --a five-hundred-year-long 'age of firepower' during which the evolution of weaponry transformed the conduct of warfare in the West ... 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"--
Über den Autor
Paul Lockhart is professor of history at Wright State University, where he has taught military and European history for thirty-one years. The author of six books on the role of war in history, including The Drillmaster of Valley Forge and The Whites of Their Eyes, Lockhart lives in Dayton, Ohio.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 640
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781541672963
ISBN-10: 1541672968
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Lockhart, Paul
Illustrator: Paul Lockhart
Hersteller: Basic Books
Maße: 242 x 159 x 49 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Lockhart
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,902 kg
preigu-id: 119674403
Über den Autor
Paul Lockhart is professor of history at Wright State University, where he has taught military and European history for thirty-one years. The author of six books on the role of war in history, including The Drillmaster of Valley Forge and The Whites of Their Eyes, Lockhart lives in Dayton, Ohio.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 640
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781541672963
ISBN-10: 1541672968
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Lockhart, Paul
Illustrator: Paul Lockhart
Hersteller: Basic Books
Maße: 242 x 159 x 49 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Lockhart
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,902 kg
preigu-id: 119674403
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